Eyes
Muscles expanding and contracting the pupil when light enters the eye.
Iris
How one sense can affect another sense.
Sensory Interaction
The organization of stimuli into coherent groups.
Grouping
To perceive objects as the same color even under changing light.
Color Constancy
Sensory receptors go up to the brain
Bottom-Up Processing
Point where the optic nerve leaves the eye.
Blind Spot
Sound waves compress and air molecules expand.
Stimulus Input
Organization of what we are able to perceive visually in response to patterns of light.
Form Perception
Visual cues determining depth perception and distance.
Light and Shadows
From the brain down to the sensory receptors.
Top-Down Processing
The central point of the retina where the eyes cones cluster.
Fovea
Two stimuli must by a constant minimum percentage to be perceived differently.
Weber's Law
Mental predispositions to perceive one thing instead of another.
Perceptual Set
The influence of environmental factors towards ones perception of a stimulus.
Context Effects
Sensing our body parts movements and position.
Kinesthesis
Receive messages from photo receptors...
Bipolar Cells
The minimum amount of stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus for 50% of the time.
Absolute threshold
Monocular cue that will occur when one object blocks another, causing the object being blocked to appear further away.
Interposition
How your environment may influence your beliefs, values or practices.
Cultural Context
Simultaneous processing in stimuli with differing quality.
Parallel Processing
Transformation of stimulus energy into neural impulses.
Transduction
When stimuli are below ones absolute threshold for conscious awareness.
Subliminal Threshold
Theory that suggests the eye must contain three receptors that are sensitive to green, blue, and red.
Trichromatic Theory
Behaviors that are a product of biological characteristics and behavioral factors.
Biopsychosocial Influences
The ability to interpret what you're seeing quickly and accurately.
Visual Information Processing