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It's sensational!
To perceive or not to perceive
Do you see what I see?
Look who's talking
think, think, think
100
These are 5 main senses.
What are vision, audition (hearing), taste, olfaction (smell), and somatosensation (touch)?
100
Mental process of organizing and interpreting sensory input from experience and expectations
What is perception?
100
The dimension of color that is determined by the wavelength of light.
What is hue?
100

A small, basic sound from a fixed set that specifies the building blocks of speech sounds that humans are capable of producing.

What is a phoneme?

100

A set of steps that, if followed methodically, will guarantee the correct solution to a problem.

What is an algorithm?

200
The _________ of sound waves determines the pitch we experience.
What is frequency?
200

Processing that is guided by knowledge, expectation, or belief.

What is top down processing?

200
This is the part of the eye where the sensory receptors important for vision (photoreceptors) are located.
What is retina?
200

The meaning of a word, phrase, or sentence are the _______, while ______ is the rules that govern how different types of words can be arranged, which produces the internal structure of a sentence

What is semantics; syntax?

200

Reasoning that applies the rules of logic to a set of assumptions (stated as premises) to discover whether certain conclusions inevitably follow from those assumptions; deduction goes from the general to the particular.

What is deductive reasoning?

300

The process whereby physical energy is converted by a sensory receptor cell into neural signals.

What is transduction?

300
Process by which our sensory receptors receive stimulus energies from the environment and represent stimulus energies our environment and represent them in the nervous system.
What is sensation?
300
Retinal receptor cells that are concentrated near the center of the retina and function in daylight.
What are cones?
300

The idea that language shapes our perceptions and thoughts, and thus people who speak different languages think differently.

What is the linguistic relativity hypothesis?

300

The strategy in which we assume that the more similar something is to a prototype stored in memory, the more likely it is to belong to the prototype’s category.

What is representativeness heuristic?

400
The 5 types of taste receptors.
What are sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami?
400
Mental tendencies and assumptions that affect (top-down) what we hear, taste, feel, and see
What is perceptual set?
400

The theory that color vision arises from the combinations of signals from three different kinds of sensors, each of which responds maximally to a different range of wavelengths.

What is the trichromatic theory of color vision?

400

The idea that underlies the meaning of a word or image; depending on the language, some concepts can be expressed with a single word or may require a phrase or two to be fully expressed.

What is a concept?

400

“General factor,” which is a single intellectual capacity that underlies the positive correlations among different tests of intelligence.

What is g?

500
These are pain receptors.
What are nociceptors?
500

The perception that characteristics of objects (such as their shapes or colors) remain the same even when the sensory information striking the eyes changes.

What is perceptual constancy?

500
This is the area of the brain where impulses from the retina are relayed en route to the visual cortex
What is the thalamus?
500

The most typical example of a concept.

What is a prototype?

500

According to Cattell and Horn, the kind of intelligence that underlies the creation of novel solutions to problems.

What is fluid intelligence?