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What is the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment?
sensation
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What is the electronic device that converts sounds into electrical signals that stimulate the auditory nerve?
cochlear implant
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What does Gestalt mean?
an organized whole
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What are some monocular cues?
relative size, interposition, relative clarity, texture gradient, relative height, relative motion, linear perspective, and light and shadow.
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What are nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle or movement?
feature detectors
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TRUE OR FALSE- The rods enable color vision.
FALSE- cones enable color vision. Rods detect black and white.
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What is figure-ground?
The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings.
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What do we depend on to help with our depth perception?
monocular cues
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What is the sense of body movement and position, including the sense of balance?
vestibular sense
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According to the Young- Helmholtz Trichromatic theory the eye has three types of color receptors they are...
1. red 2. green 3. blue
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What is the idea that perception can occur with sensory input, includes telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition.
ESP
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What is human factors psychology?
A branch of psychology that explores how people and machines interact and how machines and physical environments can be made safe and easy to use.
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the ____________ is the number of complete wave lengths that pass a point in a given time.
frequency
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Who was the philosopher that proposed that we perceive objects through senses?
Plato
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What are the basic taste sensations? *there are 5
1. sweet 2. salty 3. bitter 4. sour 5. umami
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__________ is the ability to change views of objects between 3D and 2D, and allows us to judge distance.
depth perception
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What is grouping?
Our tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups.
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What is the ring of muscle tissue that forms the colored portion of the eye around the pupil and controls the size of the pupil opening?
iris
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Who developed visual cliff to test depth perception in infants?
Gibson and Walk
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What is transduction?
When signals are transformed into neural impulses
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Name at least 3 Gestalt principles
1. similarity 2. continuity 3. connectedness 4. closure 5. proximity