Vocabulary
What is a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses?
What is illusion
Any aspect of or change in the environment to which an organism responds
What is stimulus
What is Perception?
The organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand your environment.
Balance is regulated by which system
What is the vestibular system
What are taste buds most sensitive to?
What is bitter tastes
What is the ability to see objects in three dimensions, including their size and how far away they are from you?
What is depth perception
What is the Stroop Effect?
What is the tendency to experience difficulty naming a physical color when it is used to spell the name of a different color
The perceiving of objects or information without any input
What is Clairvoyance
What are the seven major senses?
What is vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch, vestibular, and kinesthesis
What can change perception?
What are memories
What is the sense of body position and movement?
What is Kinesthesis
What is it called when our brains become too overwhelmed by too much sensory information?
What is sensory overload
When there is a familiar object or shape that has missing parts we fill in the spaces
What is closure
What are the five primary sensory experiences?
What is sour, salty, bitter, umami, and sweet
What is Ms. Leach's favorite movie?
What is Jurassic Park
What groups of senses include balance, touch, and body positioning?
What is Somesthesis
What is the difference a person can detect between two stimuli half the time?
What is the difference threshold
The experience that comes from organizing bits and pieces of information into meaningful wholes
What is Gesalt
What is the process of combining the images received from the two eyes into a single, fused image called?
What is binocular fusion
Definition of Subliminal Messages
What is messages that are presented below the threshold of conscious awareness
What are the differences between the images stimulating each eye?
What is retinal disparity
What is signal-detection theory?
What is the summary of our tendency to make correct judgements in detecting the presence of stimuli.
What is it called if you trace with your finger, you’ll see it’s a series of circles, and you’ll always go back to your starting point?
What is Fraser’s Spiral
What is the leading cause of blindness?
What in our bodies are most responsive?
What is our senses are the most responsive to increases and decreases in stimuli.