General Vocabulary
Ability to sense and perceive sound
What is Audition
Ability to recognize distances and three dimensions
When a person cannot feel
What is congenital analgesia
What are chemical senses
What is smell and taste
A coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear that houses the sensory receptors.
What is Cochlea
Clouding of the eyes lens
What is cataracts
When we learn to perceive things in a certain way regardless of condition
Summary of our tendency to make correct judgments in detecting the presence of stimuli.
What are skin and body senses?
What is vestibular and kinesthesis
What are the two types of deafness
What is conduction and sensorineural
What threshold is the smallest amount of physical stimulation
What is Absolute Threshold
Two theories of color perception
The study of the relationship between sensory experiences and physical stimuli that cause them.
Psychophysics
What happens when some or all of a person's cones don't work
The perception of lower-pitched sounds that results from the timing of the firing of the auditory nerve when the basilar membrane vibrates from sound waves of lower frequencies
What is temporal coding
Process in which sensory receptors change physical stimuli into signals sent to the brain.
What is transduction
What you are prepared to see and what you want to see
What is a perceptual set
When a person cannot feel
What is congenital analgesia
What do sensory receptors take and where do they transport to for interpretation
What is stimulus to the brain
Continuous motion when images are in rapid movement
Stroboscopic Motion
the bodys sensory symptoms and ability to percieve the body
What is Somesthesis
Who created principals of grouping
What is Gestalt
What regulates the vestibular system
What is the inner ear
The sense of body position and movement
What is kinesthesis
What do hair cells do for hearing
What is detect sound waves and transduce them into signals