Eye
Ear
Experiment
Vocabulary
Random
100
Back of the eye were photoreceptors are located
What is the Retina?
100
the visible part of the outer ear which help funnel sound waves into the ear canal
What is the pinna?
100
Situational factors can override personality and morality of human behavior where some of the findings of this controversial experiment.
What is Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment?
100
A defense mechanism in which strong uncomfortable emotions are redirected from the source of emotions to someone less threatening substitute target.
What is displacement?
100
Fight or flight responses which dilate pupils, increase heart rate are associated with this autonomic system.
What is sympathetic response system?
200
the colored part of the eye; not the color detecting part.
What is the Iris?
200
Auditory sensory organ located in the inner ear and coil shaped with fluid responsible for hearing.
What is the cochlea?
200
Monkeys demonstrated a preference for contact comfort and crucial for healthy development in this experiment.
What is Harlow's monkey experiment?
200
What is an neuron (neural cell)?
300
the photoreceptors in the fovea and retina which detect color.
What are cones?
300
Within the cochlea sits a structure with stereocilia which help transduce sound waves into neural signals.
What is the organ of corti?
300
An emotional response such as fear can be learned as demonstrated by this experiment in which rats, bunnies, and dogs caused distress when initially those stimuli had not prior to conditioning.
What is Little Albert Experiment?
400
The mostly white part of a human eye is called this.
What is scelera?
400
This system near the cochlea is responsible mostly for balance.
What is the vestibular system?
400
The way in which the brain interprets information from the opposite side from which it was perceived.
What is contralaterlization?
500
the theory which states colors are a mixture of red, green and blue. Young and Helmholtz
What is trichromatic theory?
500
These two theories are involved in describing how the ear converts sound waves into pitch. One focuses on where sound wave hits, the other in how many times the sound wave hits.
What are place theory and frequency theory?