Intro to Sensation and Perception
Vision
Hearing
100
The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus.
What is absolute threshold?
100
The small, adjustable, black part of the eye.
What is the pupil?
100
The sense or act of hearing.
What is audition?
200
The often unconscious activation of associations that predisposes a response.
What is priming?
200
Retinal receptor cells that function in daylight or well-lit conditions.
What are cones?
200
The coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube through which sound waves trigger nerve impulses.
What is the cochlea?
300
Wavelength and intensity are the two physical characteristics of this.
What is light?
300
The colored muscle of the eye that controls light intake.
What is the iris?
300
The unit of measurement for sound.
What is the decibel?
400
The transformation of stimulus energy into neural impulses.
What is transduction?
400
A genetic disorder that causes one to be blind to red or green colors.
What is color-blindness?
400
The visible part of the ear that collects sounds and sends them to the eardrum.
What is the outer ear?
500
Sensory analysis that begins at the sensory receptors and works its way to the brain.
What is bottom-up processing?
500
The process of intaking several aspects of a stimulus simultaneously.
What is parallel processing?
500
The three tiny bones in the middle ear.
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
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