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100
These receptors in the eye help you see at night and support your peripheral vision.
Rods
100
These are the 5 qualities of taste.
Sweet, salty, sour, biter, savory (umami)
100
These receptors in the eye help you did in detail during the light and in color.
Cones
100

The theory that when we have exhausted the receptor cells for one color, we will perceive its opposite.

Opponent Process Theory

100

This is the only one of our 5 senses that is resistant to sensory adaptation.

Vision

200

The process of changing stimulus energy into neural impulses is

Transduction

200

The process of taking sensory info and assembling and integrating it.

Bottom Up Processing

200
The theory that detection of a faint stimulus requires judgement and your decision making process.
Signal detection theory.
200
What are the two cues we use to perceive distance?
Binocular cues and monocular cues
200

This is the only sense for which information is not routed through the thalamus.

Scent

300
The minimum intensity of stimulation that must occur before you experience sensation 50% of the time
Absolute threshold
300
What sense is olfaction?
Smell
300
The minimum amount of stimulus intensity change required for that person to detect that change.
Difference threshold
300

Stimuli that are below the absolute threshold are referred to as...

Subliminal

300

These bones are in the middle ear and help amplify soundwaves.

Ossicle Bones (hammer, anvil, and stirrup)

400

The principle that for two stimuli to be perceived as different, they must differ by a constant minimum percentage.

Weber's Law

400

This principle explains why we don’t notice a sound that we’ve heard for a long time or a smell that we’ve smelt for a long time.

Sensory Adaptation

400

The theory that we perceive all color by combining the colors red, green, and blue.

Trichromatic Color Theory

400

The monocular cue that allows us to perceive distance when we see two parallel lines moving towards each other.

Linear Perspective

400

Transduction for hearing takes place in the...

Cochlea

500
This is the detection of environmental stimuli based on your basic senses.
Sensation
500
In this form of processing, assumptions are made about what we expect to see.
Top-down processing.
500
This is the further processing of stimuli and how the brain interprets it as something meaningful
Perception
500

This is the Gestalt law that says our mind forms outlines or boundaries around a triangle that are not there.

Completion

500
Sound travels from the sources of the sound to you understanding what it through air molecules contracting against your what?
Ear drum
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