Eye
Located in the retina; primary job is to detect color.
What are the cones?
When two or more lights blink on and off in quick succession, it gives the appearance of movement. What phenomenon is this due to?
Phi Phenomenon
If visually impaired at birth, but able to see clearly later in life, perception is impacted due to missing this.
What is a critical period of visual development?
The sequence of hearing is in this order: auditory canal, eardrum, middle ear, ______.
What is cochlea?
This theory has to do with how the brain regulates pain.
What is the gate control theory?
Cones are mostly located here in the center of the retina.
What is the fovea?
Even though two figures can be identical in size, one might look larger due to this illusion.
Ponzo illusion
The perceptual tendency to fill in gaps in order to perceive disconnected parts as a whole object is called this.
What is closure?
A normal conversation is 60 decibels, and this is ______ times louder than a 20-decibel whisper.
10,000
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" is closely associated with this approach to psychology.
What is Gestalt psychology?
A process known as accommodation is when this part of the eye thins or thickens to focus light.
What is the lens?
The St. Louis arch appears taller than it is wide. This is due to:
Relative height
Motion parallax, linear perspective, relative height, and texture gradient are all monocular cues of this.
What is depth perception?
This has sensory receptors for sound consisting of tiny, hair-like fibers.
What is the basilar membrane?
Psychics who claim to be this, typically make many guesses, some of which may be true.
What is clairvoyant?
If someone is severely damaged in the right visual cortex, they would be unable to see this.
Anything in their left visual field.
Size constancy causes this illusion.
Muller-Lyer illusion
Depth and distant objects appearing hazy are determined by this.
What is relative clarity?
Unlike other senses, the sense of smell (olfaction) does not travel to the thalamus but instead goes directly to this part of the brain.
What is the cerebral cortex?
When Michael turned his back to his wife while having a conversation with a friend, she quickly changed her hair style from a bun to her hair being down. Jason not noticing any difference is due to this.
What is change blindness?
Nearsightedness.
The somewhat different images our two eyes receive of the same object is known as this.
Retinal Disparity
As the brain receives information about the angles, lines, and edges of objects in the environment, higher level cells process and interpret the information to consciously recognize objects. This process best illustrates this.
What is perception?
Nerve deafness can be caused by exposure to amplitude over ____ decibels.
What is 85?
Georgia's cat looks just as black in the brilliant sunlight as it does in the dim light of the stable, which illustrates this:
When neighbor Burty sees Georgia's black cat and says that she is certain the sighting of this black cat will lead to bad luck, and then she gets a flat tire, this is demonstrating Burty's ____________.
What is lightness constancy; what is clairvoyance?