Vocabulary
Macular Degeneration
The lacking of being able to see straight in front of view. Sees best at night
Olfaction
The ability to use one's sense of smell.
Constancy
When something remains the same such as weight or height but they move closer or farther from you.
Optical Illusion
An O.I. is when a picture messes with one senses messing with their overall sense of reality.
Somesthesis
The name for all the types of sensory input.
Stroop Test
Gustation
Formal word for sense of taste.
What are the 5 main senses?
They include smell, taste, hear, touch, and vision.
What is frequency?
The number of sound waves in vibrations per second.
Figure-Ground Perception
The ability for someone to diffrenciate background and object or person
Binocular Depth Cue
Putting the images produced by each eyeball together in one picture to see depth perception.
Sensorineural Hearing Loss
When there is damaged done inside your ear consisting of hair cells
4 parts of the eye used for vision.
Cornea, lens, retina, and optic nerve.
Glaucoma
Something that messes pressure of optic nerve making it more difficult to see.
Example of a optical illusion
Stroop Test or Ames Room Illusion
Monocular Depth Cue
Using one eye to see depth perception
What is often used to help sensorineural hearing loss?
Cochlear Implants
What is absolute threshold?
Perception
The analyzation process of what is sensed.
Short term for Extrasensory Perception
ESP
Audition
The ability to hear or formal way of wording it
What are the two chemical senses?
Smell and Taste
Who can better sense odor?
Women
Cochlea
A part of the ear filled with liquid helping to hear.
A way to help conduction hearing loss
The use of hearing aids.