Sensation and Perception
Your ability to attend to only one voice among many
What is the cocktail party effect?
In waves, this determines the pitch we experience.
What is frequency?
The 6 tastes
What is: sweet, bitter, sour, salty, umami and oleogustus?
A mode of processing where you take in first take in pure sensory information and then it is interpreted in the brain
What is bottom-up processing?
Failing to notice a change in an item.
What is change blindness?
In waves, determines the loudness/volume of a sound we experience
What is amplitude?
The part of the ear responsible for our vestibular sense
What is the inner ear?
A condition that results in a loss of ability to recognize and or distinguish between faces/facial features.
What is prosopagnosia?
The point at which a stimulus becomes noticeable
What are absolute thresholds?
An example of a binocular cue
What is retinal disparty, or what is convergence?
The phenomenon where the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound leading to a third sound
What is the McGurk effect?
the conscious or unconscious awareness of joint position, the perception of body movements and body position
What is proprioception/kinesthesis?
This is the minimum difference a person can detect between any two stimuli half the time.
What is difference threshold?
Theory that retinal processes only occur in 3 sets of opponents: red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white.
What is the opponent-process theory?
The theory of hearing that states that we hear pitch based on HOW FAST the hair cells vibrate
What is frequency theory?
What is the limbic system (including the hippocampus and the amygdala)?
Gestalt principle that explains how we perceive things with the simplest, meaningful organization of information.
What is the Law of Pragnanz/Law of Simplicity?
Theory predicting how and when we detect the presence of a faint stimulus amid background noise, suggests that thresholds are unique to each person
What is the signal detection theory?
This is the pathway light travels through the eye. First, light enters the eye through the cornea. Then....(name the 3 parts of the eye for light's pathway).
What are pupil, lens, retina?
Type of hearing loss that results from structural damage (eardrum is punctured) to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea, and commonly occurs with age/exposure to loud music
What is Conduction Hearing Loss?
Explains why rubbing your toe after you stub it helps to block pain signals
What is the Gate-Control theory?
Path that visual stimuli takes from the retina to the brain
What is: bipolar cells -> ganglion cells -> optic nerve -> thalamus -> visual cortex?