Basics
Sight, hearing, touch, smell, & taste.
What are the 5 senses?
The brain does not have direct communication with our senses and the world-- true or false?
True.
Contain a meaning that lies below conscious perception
What is a subliminal message?
An inability to hear, resulting from damage to the structures of the middle or inner ear.
What is conduction deafness?
When your mind interprets an image that is incorrect.
What is an illusion?
The filters by which we expereince the world.
What are the senses?
The sensory process that converts items like light or sound waves into the form or neural messages.
What is transduction?
The most complex, best developed, and most important sense for humans but dependend on one of the smallest organs
What is vision?
The middle ear is made up of these bones.
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
The process of using context or general knowledge to understand what we perceive.
What is top-down processing?
The senses of taste and smell are also called this.
Gustation and olfaction.
List the steps of transduction.
What are
1- detection of a stimulus
2-stimulus to sensory organ & activation of sensory receptor
3-reecptor converts info to nerve signal
When the eye converts the characteristics of light into neural signals that the brain can process and interpret.
What is transduction?
This provides constant sensory feedback about what the muscles in your body are doing.
What is the kinesthetic sense?
This is the ability to recognize the same object as remaining “constant” under changing conditions.
What is Perceptual Consistency?
Process by which sensory systems & the nervous system recieve stimuli from the environment.
What is sensation?
Thee diminishing responsiveness of our sensory systems to prolonged stimulation.
What is sensory adaptation?
The colored part of your eye that changes the size of the pupil.
What is the iris?
These are the 4 main qualities of taste?
What are sweet, sour, bitter and salty?
Occurs as our sensory receptors receive new sensory information and does not require the use of prior knowledge or experiences.
Process of organizing and interpreting incoming snsory information.
What is perception?
The minimum amount of stimulation needed to detect a specific stimulus.
What is absolute threshold?
Transduction occurs in this part of the eye.
What is the retina?
Theory that states that the spinal cord contains a "gate" that controls whether pain signals get sent to the brain or not. This "gate" is opened based on the strength of the pain signals from the body.
What is Gate-Control Theory?
Name the 3 types of perception blindness.
What are:
•Inattentional Blindness
•Change Blindness
•Choice Blindness