Chemical and Body Senses
The chemical sense that allows you to smell
olfaction
The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment. (biological)
Sensation. Sensation is detection, Perception is Interpretation
When you stare at a red square and then look to a white surface, the afterimage is:
A green square. Opponent Process theory
The area of the eye where the optic nerve leaves...leaves you with a:
blindspot
Steamboat Willie in the beginning of Disney movies is an example of this type of movement
Stroboscopic
With your eyes closed you can accurately touch your mouth, nose, and chin. This signifies the importance of:
Kinesthesis
the principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage(rather than a constant stimulation)
Weber's law
In one experiment, most of the participants who viewed a videotape of men tossing a basketball were unaware of a woman holding an umbrella walking through them. This illustrated:
inattentional blindness
This relates to perceptual set. When John sees his chemistry teacher in school daily, but does recognize him when he seems in the grocery store....what is this?
Context Effects
The first time something hits you (a scent, visual stimuli, etc) 50% of the time is your _____________ ___________
Absolute Threshold
Smell and taste are a good example of:
Sensory Interaction AND Chemical Senses
Sensation is _____________, Perception is ______________ (bottom up or top down)
bottom-up; top down
Depth perception that uses information from only ONE eye is a:
Monocular Cue
when adding small amounts at different times until you receive a difference of your previous outcome
difference threshold (KNOW WEBER'S LAW)
The ability to recognize the color, shape, size and speed of an oncoming car best illustrates:
Parallel Processing
the loss of dizziness would be considered a disruption of what sense?
Vestibular sense (semicircular canals in your ears)
After listening to the high volume in your car for a few minutes, you fail to realize how loud it is...this best illustrates:
sensory adaptation
What is a perceptual set?
Mental predispositions that influence what we perceive.
Who emphasized that the whole may exceed the sum of its parts:
Gestalt psychologists
Our 4 basic tastes are:
Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter
The process by which our sensory systems convert stimulus energies into neural messages is called:
Transduction
There is a ship on the ocean. The ship is the __________ and the ocean is the ____________. (perceptual principle)
figure; ground
Pain in an amputated limb is known as:__________. This helps to prove that pain is _________.
Phantom limb; psychological
when looking at a painting you tend to look at the colors, brush strokes, and shapes instead of noticing the whole meaning and idea of it.
bottom-up processing
What does the Young Helmholtz Theory say about color vision?