Your ability to attend to only one voice among many.
What is cocktail effect?
100
This part of the eye carries information to your brain, where the thalamus will receive and distribute the information.
What is the Optic Nerve?
100
In waves, this determines the pitch we experience.
What is frequency?
100
Pleasing tastes attracted our ancestors to this type of food that enabled their survival.
What is energy or protein-rich?
100
According to this theory, the ability to perceive pitch id determined by the vibrations of certain locations of the ear
What is the place theory?
200
In our everyday experiences, these 2 things blend into one continuous process.
What are sensation and perception?
200
After _____________ exposure to a stimulus, our nerve cells fire less __________________.
What are constant and less?
200
To hear, we must somehow convert sound waves into neural activity. The middle ear transmits the eardrum's vibrations through a section made of these 3 tiny bones.
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
200
Components of touch
What are pressure, warmth, cold, and pain?
200
To our eye, wavelength determines this about how we sense images.
What is hue and color?
300
The process of using models, ideas, and expectations to interpret sensory information
What is top-down processing?
300
Most people with color-deficient vision are not actually "colorblind". They simply lack functioning _________ or _____________ sensitive cones, or sometimes both.
What is red and green?
300
When the middle ear is not conducting sound well to the cochlea.
What is conduction hearing loss?
300
Sensory receptors whose signals are interpreted by the brain as pain.
What are nociceptors?
300
Another fancy word for smell
What is olfaction?
400
To function effectively, we need ____________________ _____________________ low enough to allow us to detect important sights, sounds, textures, tastes, and smells.
What are absolute thresholds?
400
"We can tell if a person is looking at a shoe, a chair, or a face, based on the pattern of their brain activity." Without these, researchers would not be able to do that.
What are feature detectors?
400
At ultra high frequencies, receptor cells fire in succession, combining their signals to reach higher firing rates.
What is the Volley Principle?
400
The _____________ theory believes that the spinal cord contains areas that can block pain signals or allow them to pass onto the brain.
What is Gate-Control Theory?
400
The ability to sense the position of the head and body relative to gravity
What is vestibular sense?
500
AKA the just noticeable difference, this is the minimum difference a person can detect between any two stimuli half the time.
What is difference threshold?
500
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?
500
This is the area of the brain where impulses from the retina are relayed en route to the visual cortex.
What are number and hair cells?
500
Information from the nose goes to these two locations.
What is the Temporal Lobe and the Limbic System?
500
Sensors in the joints and muscles send signals that coordinate with signals from the skin, eyes, and ears