Eyes
Ear
Other senses
Principles & Cues
Illusions
100
This set of colors are the primary colors when mixing light.
What is red, blue, and green?
100
This is the visible part of the ear.
What is the pinna?
100
The sense of taste is most closely related to this sense.
What is the sense of smell?
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
Humans do not have sensory receptors for this form of energy.
What is radio waves?
200
This Gestalt principle is at work when a ventriloquist moves the dummy's mouth while doing the talking, making it seem like the dummy is talking.
What is contiguity?
200
A visual stimulus that fools the eye into seeing something that's not real is called this.
What is an illusion?
300
This quality is determined by the amplitude of a light wave.
What is brightness?
300
The thin membrane stretched over the opening of the ear.
What is the oval window?
300
The "bumps" on the tongue that are visible to the eye are called this.
What is papillae?
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
Visual sensory receptors found at the back of the retina, responsible for color vision and sharpness of vision.
What are cones?
400
This type of hearing impairment is likely to develop when the bones of the middle ear are damaged.
What is conduction hearing impairment?
400
The location of the olfactory receptor cells.
What is at the tops of the nasal passages?
400
The Müller-Lyer illusion exists in cultures with these.
What is buildings with lots of corners?
400
The Müller-Lyer illusion exists in cultures with these.
What is buildings with lots of corners?
500
This is the correct path of light through the eye.
What is cornea, pupil, lens, vitreous humor, retina
500
This principle explains how we hear sounds between 400 and 4000 Hz.
What is the volley principle?
500
We know we are moving up and down in an elevator because of the movement of tiny crystals found here.
What is the otolith organs?
500
As a monocular clue, the brain's use of information about the changing thickness of the lens of the eye in response to looking at objects that are close or far away.
What is accommodation?
500
A person's cultural background will most likely affect this.
What is his or her perceptual expectancies?
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