Sensation
Vocabulary
Perception
Senses
Random
100
Any aspect of or change in the environment to which an organism responds
What is a stimulus
100
taking information from the senses and organizing it into meaningful material
What is perception
100
the experience that comes from organizing bits and pieces of information into meaningful wholes
What is Gestalt
100
balance is regulated by which system
What is the vestibular system
100

Retinal receptor cells that are concentrated near the center of the retina and function in daylight

What are cones?

200
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
200
the tendency to perceive certain object in the same way regardless of changing angle, distance or lighting
What is constancy
200
When there is a familiar object or shape that has missing parts we fill in the spaces
What is closure
200

the sense of movement and body position

What is Proprioception (kinesthesis)

200
lesson the pain by shifting our attention away from the pain impulses (it is why athletes can finish a game injured)
What is Gate control theory of pain
300
The weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half the time
What is an absolute threshold
300
occurs when a stimulus activiates a receptor
What is sensation
300
Grouping objects that are similar and close
What is proximity
300
known as the chemical senses becuase their receptors are sensitive to chemical molecules
What is the sense of smell and taste
300

Most color deficient people aren't color blind, but simply lack one or both of these cones

What are red and green?

400
responding to changes in the environment becuase our senses have the ability to adapt to a contant level of stimulation.
What is sensory adaptation
400
the innermost coating of the back of the eye, containing the light-sensitive receptor cells
What is the retina
400

Information processing guided by higher-level mental prcesses, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expections

What is top-down processing?

400

Name at least 4 different parts of the eye.

What is the pupil, lens, iris, cornea, retina, fovea, blind spot, and optic nerve?

400

Being able to focus on one particular voice in a crowded room...

What is the cocktail party effect?

500

Two types of processing stimuli

HINT: Stroop Interference Effect

Preattentive - extracting information automatically Attentive - A procedure that considers only one part of the stimuli presented at a time.

500
brief auditory or visual messages that are presented below the absolute threshold
What are subliminal messages
500

previous stimuli influence reaction to next stimuli

What is priming?

500

What are the 5 taste sensations?

Sweet

Salt

Sour

Bitter 

Umami 

500

What is interoception?

Internal body and emotions 

(Feel and act on basic needs)

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