Sensation
Senses
Perception
Vocabulary
Potpourri
100
The smallest increase or decrease in the intensity of a stimulus that a person is able to detect
What is Just noticeable difference (JND)
100
A light sensitive receptor in the retina that requires more light and is sensitive to color
What are Cones
100
The experiences that comes from organizing bits and pieces of information into meaningful wholes
What is Gestalt
100
The nerve that carries impulses from the retina to the brain
What is the optic nerve
100
The sense of movement and body position
What is kinesthesis
200
The study of people's tendencies to make correct judgements in detecting the presence of stimuli
What is the signal-detection theory
200
The two senses that are known as the chemical senses
What are the senses of taste and smell
200
When we automatically fill in the gaps in what our senses tell us based on past experiences
What is perceptual inference
200
Three semicircular canals that provide the sense of balance, located in the inner ear and connected to the brain by a nerve
What is the vestibular system
200
What occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor
What is sensation
300
two types of processing stimuli that psychologists have identified
What are preattentive process and attentive process
300
The location of the vestibular system
What is the inner ear
300
Incorrect perceptions created when perceptual cues are distorted
What are illusions
300
The nerve that carries impulses from the inner ear to the brain, resulting in the sensation of sound
What is the auditory nerve
300
The study of the relationships between sensory experiences and the physical stimuli that causes them
What is psychophysics
400
The process of one stimuli acting as an interference for another stimuli and slowing down our reaction. (think about the color experiment)
What is the Stroop Effect
400
An ability to gain information by some means other than the ordinary senses
What is extrasensory perception
400
The nerve that carries smell impulses from the nose to the brain
What is the olfactory nerve
400
The innermost coating of the back of the eye, containing the light sensitive receptor cells
What is the retina
500
The concept that we experience in visual sensivity after a short time in a darkened movie theater is known as
What is sensory adaptation
500
The difference between the images stimulating each eye
What is Retintal disparity
500
People use these cues to perceive distance and depth
What are monocular and binocular depth cues
500
The principle that the larger or stronger a stimulus, the larger the change required for an observer to notice a difference
What is Weber's law
500
The organizing of sensory information into meaningful experiences
What is perception
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