Eyes
Ear
Thresholds
Principles & Cues
Misc.
100

the light sensitive inner surface of the eye containing receptor rods and cones plus the processing of visual information.

What is red, blue, and green?

100

This is the visible part of the ear.

What is the pinna?

100

Minimum stimulation necessary to detect light, sound, pressure, taste and odor 50 percent of the time.  

Absolute Threshold 

100

The method by which the sensations experienced at any given moment are interrupted and organized in some meaningful fashion.

What is perception?

100

The tendency for parallel lines to appear to converge on each other.

What is linear perspective?

200

 This part of the eye is responsible for controlling how much light enters the eye.

What is the iris?

200

Psychological experience of sound that corresponds to the frequency of the sound waves.

What is pitch?

200

Stimuli you cannot detect 50 percent of the time are

subliminal 

200

An organized whole. Getsalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes. 

The Gestalt Principle

200

A visual stimulus that fools the eye into seeing something that's not real is called this.

What is an illusion?

300

This carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain.

optic nerve

300

The coiled bony, fluid - filled tube in the inner ear; sound waves traveling through the cochlear fluid trigger nerve impulses. 

Cochlea

300

The activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memory or response.  

or

A phenomenon in which exposure to a stimulus, such as a word or image, influences how one responds to a subsequent, related stimulus.

What is priming.

300

When assembling a puzzle without a picture of the completed puzzle you are using this.

What is bottom-up processing?

300

The tendency to perceive a quarter as being round even when it is viewed at an angle is called this.

What is shape constancy?

400

retinal receptor cells that are concentrated near the center of the retina and that function in daylight or in well-lit conditions.   

What are cones?

400

This type of hearing loss is likely to develop when the bones of the middle ear are damaged.

What is conduction hearing loss.

400

The minimum difference in stimulation that a person can detect 50 percent of the time.

Difference Threshold 

400

The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings.

What is Figure Ground

400

An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession.

What is the Phi Phenomenon.

500

Define Accommodation

the process by which the eye's lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina.  


500

define the hammer and what it does. 

A tiny bone that passes vibrations from the eardrum to the anvil

500

A theory predicting how we detect the presence of a faint stimulus (signal) amid background stimulation (noise)

Signal detection theory

500

Depth Cues, such as interposition and linear perspective available to either eye alone.

Monocular Cues 

500

Perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent brightness, shape, size and color) even as illumination and retinal images change. 

What is Perceptual Constancy.

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