senses
What are the 5 levels of primary sensory experiences with taste?
sour, salty, bitter, umami, and sweet
Deafness effects what sesnes?
hearing
What is trichromatic theory?
there are different types of cones, each one being sensitive to a different color: green, blue, and red.
What is Olfaction?
The sense of smell
Who is better at detecting odors-men or women? Why?
Women because they have a heightened olfactory sense.
What are the chemical senses?
taste and smell
what is retinal disparity?
The differences between the images stimulating each eye
What is signal-detection theory
the summary of our tendency to make correct judgements in detecting the presence of stimuli.
What is Cochlea?
It is a spiral-shaped, fluid-filled cavity in the inner ear that is essential for hearing.
In the context of sight, how do rods and cones work?
They changes light energy into neural impulses.
What is another word for hearing?
audition
What is glaucoma?
When pressure in the eyes rise above normal levels, which damages the optic nerve.
What is Gaslat known for?
Refers to the experience that comes from organizing bit of information into a whole.
What is synesthesia?
It is a perceptual phenomenon where one sense or cognitive pathway triggers a simultaneous, involuntary experience in another.
What are frequency and amplitude?
Amplitude is the loudness of sound it is based of the height of the sound waves.
Frequency is the pitch of sound and it is based of vibrations of the sound waves.
what are the skin and body senses?
Vestibular and Kinesthesis
what is congenital analgesia?
is when a person can not feel.
Is perception known or learned?
Learned
What is binocular fusion?
It is the brain's ability to combine the two separate, slightly different images from each eye into a single, unified, three-dimensional picture.
What are the 4 parts of our eye that work together in the process of vision?
The cornea, pupil/iris, lens, and retina.
What does the skin and body senses help you do?
Senses allow us to feel dizziness, pain, and figure out how we’re positioned in relation to our surroundings.
what is macular degeneration?
The deterioration of cones in the retina. Peripheral and night vision often remain normal.
WHat is Psychokinesis?
It is moving things through mental effort alone.
What is gustation?
The sense of taste were we can taste through receptors in the tongue.
What is meant by absolute threshold?
The weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half the time.