Basic Principles
Perception
Vision
Hearing
Other Senses
100
When constant exposure to a stimulus leads to decreased sensitivity over time.
What is sensory adaptation?
100
This type of processing uses prior knowledge, expectations, and experiences to interpret sensory information.
What is Top-down Processing?
100
When seeing the color red, ____ wavelengths are hitting my retina.
What are long?
100
The phenomenon in which the ear gets the waves first tells us the location of sound.
What is Sound Localization?
100
The process that allows a ballerina to detect the position of different parts of her body
What is Kinesthetic sense?
200
The smallest detectable change in a stimulus.
What is the Just Noticeable Difference / Difference threshold?
200
The Gestalt Principle is on display here. 
What is proximity?
200
The back of the eye where light is turned into nerve signals. It contains special cells (rods and cones) that help us see.
What is the retina?
200
Wavelength or frequency determines what we hear in terms of...
What is Pitch?
200
The principle that one sense may influence another
What is Sensory interaction?
300
The conversion of stimulus energies, like sights and sounds, into neural impulses?
What is Transduction?
300
A readiness to perceive things a certain way, based on expectations, emotions, or cultural background.
What is perceptual set?
300
The clear, outer layer at the front of the eye. It helps focus light coming into the eye.
Cornea
300
The coiled, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear that contains the basilar membrane
What is the Cochlea?
300
Dizziness and loss of balance could result from the disruption of what sense?
What is the vestibular sense?
400
The minimum intensity of a stimulus that can be detected 50% of the time.
What is absolute threshold?
400
When two parallel lines appear to come together in the distance.
What is linear perspective?
400
According to this theory, the retina contains three types of color receptors (red, green, blue), and their combination allows us to perceive the full color spectrum.
What is the Trichromatic Theory?
400
The theory that says that the location where cilia bend determines the pitch.
What is place theory?
400
Which of these taste sensations is not actually a taste: Sweet, Sour, Spicy, Bitter, Salty, Umami, or Oleogustus
What is Spicy?
500
Principle that states that in order to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a minimum percentage rather than a constant amount.
What is Weber's law?
500
The difference between images in the left and right eyes; the brain uses this difference to calculate depth.
What is retinal disparity?
500
These photoreceptor cells detect color and are concentrated in the fovea, the center of the retina.
What are Cones?
500
The theory that states that the pitch that we hear is determined by the rate at which action potentials are sent.
What is frequency theory?
500
The only sense of smell that does not route through the thalamus.
What is olfaction (smell)?