Sensation
The dominant human sense.
What is vision?
The colored portion of the eye.
What is the iris?
Measured by the amplitude of a sound wave.
What is loudness
Taste described as savory.
What is unmami?
Applying meaning to a sensation.
What is perception.
The process of converting a light wave into a neural impulse.
What is transduction?
Cells in the retina that detect color.
What are the cones?
The unit of measure of loudness.
What is decibel?
The sense organ for taste.
What is the taste buds?
Closure, similarity, proximity and continuity.
What are the Gestalt principles?
Equation used to determine just noticeable difference.
What is Weber's law.
The muscle that changes the shape of the lens.
What are the ciliary muscles?
Tube running from the middle ear to the throat.
What is the Eustachian tube?
Taste and smell
What is flavor?
Linear perspective
What is a monocular distance cue?
The ability to see a candlelight at 30 miles
What is the absolute threshold for vision?
The humor in the anterior chamber of the eye.
What is the aqueous humor.
Where the stirrup (stapes) connects the the cochlea.
What is the oval window?
Bumps on the tongue
What are papillae?
Distortion of figure and ground.
What is camouflage?
The largest sense organ.
What is the skin?
The change to the shape of the lens to focus light on the retina.
What is accommodation?
Vision loss associated with aging requiring glasses for reading.
What is presbycusis?
The inability to smell.
What is anosmia?
Binocular distance cue used to perceive depth.
What is retinal disparity?