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Important Terms
Sensations
The Eye
The Ear
Depth Perception
100
Your interpretation of the information that is taken in by your senses is called this.
What is perception?
100
You keep the lighting on your phone as dim as the settings allow. When others look at your phone, they can hardly see anything. What explains your ability to see the screen perfectly clearly?
What is sensory adaptation?
100

When lighting is very dim, these sense vision.

What are rods?

100
In waves, this determines the pitch we experience.
What is frequency?
100
Cues that allow us to judge distance, which we only need one eye for.
What are monocular cues?
200
Receiving raw information from the senses is known as this.
What is sensation?
200
This identifies the belief that the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.
What is Gestalt psychology?
200
The hole in the center of the eye, where light enters.
What is the pupil?
200
The other name for the outer ear, which we can see when looking at someone.
What is the pinna?
200
The tendency to see floor tiles as one pattern, rather than as separate squares is caused by this principle.
What is continuity?
300
The likelihood of someone noticing sensory stimuli depends not only the strength of the stimuli but also on elements such as setting, ones’ physical state, mood, attitude (for example, buying more food when grocery shopping hungry).
What is signal detection theory?
300
The sense of touch relies on this many receptors.

What is 3?

300
The photoreceptors that don't work well in dim light, but perceive details.
What are cones?
300
This is the fluid filled, snail shaped structure, where sound waves are amplified and sent onto the brain.
What is the cochlea?
300
The perceived further distance of something which is higher in your visual field.
What is relative height?
400
Detecting about one drop of perfume diffused throughout a small house is an example of:
What is absolute threshold?
400

Smell is sensed through this class of transducers.

What are chemoreceptors? 

400
Most people with color-deficient vison are not actually "colorblind". They simply lack functioning _________ or _____________ sensitive cones, or sometimes both. (two colors)
What are red or green?
400

These transfer sound waves into neural impulses

What are mechanoreceptors (cillia)?

400
The apparent meeting of two parallel lines in the distance.
What is linear perspective?
500
AKA the just noticeable difference, this is the minimum difference a person can detect between any two stimuli half the time.
What is difference threshold?
500

This frequency is the first lost in old age

High pitch?

500
This part of the eye carries information to your brain, where the thalamus will receive and distribute the information.
What is the optic nerve?
500

Fusion of the three bones located in the middle ear results in this form of hearing loss.

What is conductive?

500

You cannot see your own nose because of this binocular cue.

What is retinal disparity?