Eye
This color has the longest wavelength
red
Term for the perceptual quality of a sound
timbre
What are your four distinct skin senses?
warm, cold, pressure, pain
Taste and smell are referred to as our ____________ senses
chemical
The ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two dimensional
depth perception
Area of the retina where cones are densely packed
fovea
In which area of the ear would you find the Eustachian tube?
middle
sensory receptors that respond to changes in temperature
thermoreceptors
Area of the tongue where taste buds are found
papillae
monocular cue that things higher in our field of vision look further away
relative height
neurons that convert light energy to electrochemical impulses
photoreceptors
Type hearing loss linked to age or exposure to ear-splitting noises
unspecialized nerve endings that take touch information to the brain
free nerve endings
What are your five basic taste sensations?
sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami
the false illusion of movement perceived when our entire visual field is moving
induced movement
These cells lie between your rods and cones and the ganglion cells
bipolar cells
What is determined by the frequency of sound waves?
pitch
theory that the spinal cord can block pain signals or allow them to pass to the brain
gate control theory
Where would you find the sensory receptors for your vestibular sense?
inner ear (semicircular canals)
Processing that uses our experiences & expectations to interpret those sensations
top-down
the theory that color perception depends on the reception of pairs of antagonist colors
opponent-process theory
Where in the ear does transduction occur?
the cochlea
you can treat chronic pain by stimulating the gate-closing activity in the neural fibers, name one way in which you can close the pain gate
acupuncture, massage, rubbing, ice
Membrane located at the top of the nasal cavity where scent molecules dissolve
olfactory epithelium
our ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field
perceptual adaptation