The Ear
The Eye
Terms
Sensations
Perceptions
100
This is in the inner ear and is a snail-shaped structure.
What is the cochlea?
100
This is located at the back of the retina and is responsible for seeing black and white images.
What is rods?
100
This is an image that occurs for a breif amount of time after looking at an image for a long time.
What is afterimages?
100
This is what you feel
What is sensation.
100
This is the tendency to complete objects that are incomplete.
What is closure?
200
This bends light waves so the image can be focused in the retina.
What is the cornea?
200
This is a psychological experience of sound that corresponds to frequency of sound.
What is pitch?
200
This is the process of converting outside stimuli, such as light, into neural activity.
What is transduction?
200
The tendency to perceive things that look similar to each other as being part of a group.
What is similarity?
300
These are the tiny bones in the middle of the ear.
What is the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
300
This contains photoreceptor cells.
What is the retina?
300
This is the recovery of the eye's sensitivity to visual stimuli in light after exposure to darkness.
What is light adaptation?
300
This is what you can see 50% of the time.
What is absolute threshold?
300
The tendency to perceive objects that are close to eachother as being part of a group.
What is proximity?
400
This is a bundle of axons from the hair cells into the inner ear.
What is the auditory nerve?
400
This changes shape to bring objects into focus.
What is the lens?
400
This is cycles or waves per second, a measurement od frequency.
What is hertz (Hz)
400
This is a tendency of the brain which stops attending to constant, unchanging information.
What is hibituation?
500
This is a short tunnel that runs from the pinna to the eardrum.
What is the auditory canal?
500
This sends visual information to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
500
This is a theory of color vision that proposes four primary colors with cones agganged in pairs: red - green and blue - yellow
What is the opponent-process theory?
500
This is a disorder im which signald from various sensory organs are processed in the wrong cortical areas, resulting in having more than one sensation.
What is synesthesia?