Intro/Threshold
Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations.
What is top-down processing?
The dimmension of color that is determined by the wavelength of light.
What is hue?
The conch shape part of the inner ear.
What are the cochlea?
Theory that the retina contains 3 different color receptors-which when stimulated in combination can produce the perception of any color.
What is the Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory?
Process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive stimulus from our environment.
What is sensation?
High frequency is the color ___________
Low frequency is the color ___________
(need to get them both in order)
What is blue then red?
The part of the brain responsible for smell (has it's own region)
What are the olfactory bulb?
Theory that opposing retinal processes enable color vision.
What is Opponent Process Theory?
The lens focuses the rays by changing its curvature in a process called
What is accomodation?
The principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage
What is Weber's Law?
These receptor cells are the most light sensitive
What are rods?
Damage to this region, you could recognize forms and objects, but not faces.
What is the temporal lobe?
List the three pairs of colors that enable color vision (there are six total)
Red - Green
Yellow - Blue
White - Black
Fill in the blank (using the same word)
Bright colors, loud sounds = great ________; dull colors, soft sounds = small ________
What is amplitude?
This emphasizes that personal expectations and motivations influence the level of absolute thresholds
What is Signal Detection Theory?
The 4 subdimensions in parallel processing (think of a bird flying)
What is color, movement, form, and depth?
Most color deficient people aren't color blind, but simply lack one or both of these cones (you must correctly list the two colors)
What are red and green cones?
Visual acuity would likely indicate damage to this part of the eye
What is the Fovea?
List the 5 different types of taste.
Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami.
The term for a meaningful pattern/configuration, forming a “whole” that is more than the sum of its parts.
What is the gestalt?