Vision
Other Senses
Information Processing
Depth Perception
Optical Illusions
100

The photoreceptors for color vision

What are cones?

100

The technical term is "olfaction"

What is smell?

100

Not noticing the smell of your own house

What is sensory habituation?

100

Two parallel lines appear to converge in the distance

What is the linear perspective?

100

Gestalt Principle of relating objects based on their closeness 

What is proximity?

200

The back of the eye

What is the retina?

200

The technical term is "gustation"

What is taste?

200

Analyzing a song for the fourth time

What is top-down processing?

200

One object blocking the view of another

What is the interposition cue?

200

Individual pictures moving at a fast rate being perceived as motion

What is stroboscopic movement?

300

Specialized groups of neurons in the brain for identifying certain features 

What are feature detectors?

300

Pain messages take priority over other messages

What is Gate Control Theory?

300

Failing to perceive a stimulus that is present

What is a false-negative?

300

Objects further away appear smaller

What is the relative size cue?
300

Societies without right angles do not see this illusion

What is the Muller-Lyer Illusion?

400

Specific area where cones are located

What is the fovea?

400

Turns vibrations from the hammer, stirrup, and anvil into neural impulses

What is the cochlea?
400

Part of top-down processing, a readiness to perceive a familiar stimulus a certain way

What is a perceptual set?

400
Each eyes sees the world from a slightly different angle

What is retinal disparity?

400

When a stationary point in a featureless environment appears to move

What is the autokinetic effect?

500

Our cones work in pairs of red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white

What is Opponent Process Theory?

500

Our sense of body orientation in space, which comes from the inner ears

What is vestibular sense?

500

Any change to a stimulus must be proportional or it will not be noticed

What is Weber's Law?

500

The eyes turning inward to track an object that is coming closer

What is convergence?

500

This is why the moon appears larger near the horizon

What is the Ponzo Illusion?

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