Intro/Threshold/Sensory Adaption
Vision & The Eye
Touch & Chemical Senses
Color Vision
Random
100

Learning to block out sounds we hear frequently 

Sensory Adaptation 

100
The deminsion of color that is determined by the wavelength of light.
What is hue?
100

A persons Vestibular sense helps control?

What is Balance

100

What are the two kinds of photoreceptors?

What are Rods & Cones

100
Process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system recieve stimulus from our environment.
What is sensation?
200

Our awareness of faint stimuli illustrates our...

What is absolute threshold?

200

The lens of the eye is responsible for...

What is Keeping objects in focus

200

Bony tube in the inner ear that contains fluid and neurons

What is the Cochlea

200

Rods in the retina allow us to recognize...

What are the outlines of objects

200

Sounds are caused by?

What are Vibrations that cause changes in air pressure

300

How psychological factors affect perception is considered what?

What is Signal-Detection Theory

300
Name at least 5 different parts of the eye.
What is the Pupil, lens, Iris, cornea, retina, fovea, blind spot, and optic nerve?
300

Smell and taste are known as...?

What are chemical senses?

300

Sharpness of vision is known as?

What is  Visual Acuity?

300

Sensitive surface of the eye that acts like film in a camera

What is the Retina

400
Give an example of subliminal persuasion. (Doesn't need to be in the form of a question)
Advertising, etc.
400

Many people become farsighted when they are older due to

The lens in their eyes becoming more brittle

400

Pressure, temperature, and pain are examples of _______ senses?

What are Skin senses
400

Perspective and texture gradients are examples of...

What are Monocular Cues

400
The minimum difference between 2 stimuli required for detection 50% of the time.
What is difference threshold?
500
Our diminished sensitivity to constant or routine odors, sounds, and touches, to focus our attention on information changes in stimulation.
What is sensory adaptation?
500
Explain the uses of at least 2 parts of the eye. (Doesn't need to be in the form of a question)
Blind spot- Optic nerve leaves the eye; Optic nerve- Nerve that caries neural impulses from the eye to the brain; Retina- Light sensitive inner surface that begin the processing of visual information.
500
Give at least 3 characteristics of rods. (Doesn't need to be in the form of a question.)
Number- 120 million; Location in Retina- periphery; High sensitivity; no color sensitivity; no detail sensitivity.
500
Opponent processes explain this type of effect.
What is the afterimage affect?
500

Even with the eyes closed, a person knows about the position and motion of his or her body parts because of...?

What is Kinesthesis

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