Sensation
Vision & the Eye
Hearing & the Ear
Perception
Old things
100

Process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system recieve stimulus from our environment.

What is sensation?

100

Transduction for the eye takes place here

What is the retina?

100

This is where conduction takes place in the ear.

What is the cochlea?

100

___ psychology says we perceive whole objects or figures rather than just a collection of parts.

What is gestalt?

100

This type of neuron sends messages TO the brain

What are sensory neurons?

200

the smallest level of energy required by an external stimulus to be detectable by the human senses

What is absolute threshold?

200

This process is why you can look at your phone and then at something in the distance and see both clearly.

What is accomodation?

200

This type of hearing loss may occur if the eardrum is ruptured.

What is conduction deafness?

200

This is a mental predisposition that influences what we perceive.

What is a perceptual set?

200

A fast heart rate and increasing blood pressure may be signs of the ____ nervous system being active.

What is the sympathetic nervous system?

300
Information processing guided by higher-level mental prcesses, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expections.
What is top-down processing?
300

Retinal receptor cells responsible for low light and night vision

What are rods?
300

This type of hearing loss is caused by damage to the inner ear or auditory nerve.

What is sensorineural deafness?

300

We miss our own typos because we know what we intended.” This best illustrates what type of processing?

What is top-down processing?

300

These are large, slow waves associated with deep sleep.

What are delta waves?

400

Give an example of sensory adaptation

not smelling perfume after wearing it often

not feeling your watch on your wrist

400

Retinal receptor cells that are responsible for color vision and function best in daylight.

What are cones?

400

The brain's ability to determine the location of a sound source in space.

What is sound localization?

400

The way our brain makes sense of information by starting with the small details and then building up to a complete perception.

What is bottom-up processing?

400

What is REM rebound?

increase in REM sleep after a night of being sleep deprived

500
The principle that, to be percieved as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage
What is Weber's Law?
500

The larger the ___, the brighter the color or the louder the sound

what is amplitude?

500

The idea that different parts of the inner ear detect different sound frequencies.

What is place theory?
500

occurs when one object overlaps another, leading us to perceive the overlapping object as closer.

What is interposition?

500

Someone with seizures may have their ___ cut, resulting in them becoming a "split-brain" patient.

What is the corpus collosum?