The Eyes Have It
I allow light to enter the eye.
What is the Pupil?
The "tunnel" of the outer ear that funnels sound waves to the eardrum.
What is the auditory canal?
This sense is comprised of pain, pressure, and temperature.
What is touch?
Almost like secret messages, this stimulus is below our absolute threshold but is theorized to still be able to "influence" us.
What is subliminal stimulation?
In this unit, as well as the unit's name, it is the term for how we explain or make sense of the stimuli we experience.
What is perception?
The colored part of the eye, that controls the size of the pupil, and how much light enters the eye.
What is the Iris?
The membrane of the middle ear that begins the process of hearing by transferring sound waves as vibrations.
What is the eardrum?
The other term for sense of smell.
What is olfactory/olfaction?
The rule in difference threshold that stimuli must change my a proportional percentage instead of a constant amount.
What is Weber's Law?
Our ability to focus in on specific stimuli and drown out outside distractions.
What is selective attention?
Responsible for carrying the neural impulse from the eye to the visual cortex.
What is the Optic Nerve?
The snail shaped structure in the inner ear, which uses fluid and hairs to transduct sound waves into neural impulses.
What is the Cochlea?
Our kinesthetic sense is how we make of our _______ in relation to itself. The receptors that tell us this information are our ______, _______, and ________.
What is body, muscles, joints, and tendons?
As we experience constant exposure to the same stimuli, we stop noticing it.
What is sensory adaptation?
The 2 cells that exist within the retina of the eye, one perceiving black and white, the other, color.
What are Rods and Cones?
Focuses the image entering the eye to be projected on the wall of the eye.
What is the Lens?
Both light and sound waves are measured by frequency and amplitude, but this is the unique perception of sound waves. Which is basically the quality of sound.
What is complexity or timbre?
The vestibular sense (balance/equilibrium) is perceived, impart, due to this structure in the ear.
What is semicircular canal?
This is the lowest limit of a stimuli for perception to occur at least 50% of the time.
What is absolute threshold
Smell and Taste are intertwined senses, this is better known by the term...
What is sensory interaction?
Responsible for transduction of light waves into neural impulses.
What is the Retina?
The reason for our ability to localize sound (tell the direction it is coming from) is because sound hits one ear first creating this on the opposite side.
What is sound shadow?
The 5 types of flavors we taste with gustation.
What is...
1. Salty
2. Sour
3. Sweet
4. Bitter
5. Umami or Savory
Continuity errors in movies are a prime example of our inability to perceive difference in perceptions.
What is change blindness?
Interposition, Relative Height, Linear Perspective are all monocular cues that allow us to see...
What is depth perception?