Vision
Form by which light enter the eye.
What are electromagnetic radiation waves?
Number of waves per second.
What is frequency or hertz?
Perception moves back and forth because ground is not clearly defined.
What is a reversible/ambiguous/impossible figure?
Scientific term for taste.
What is gustation?
Conversion of sensory stimuli into neural impulses.
What is transduction?
Lobe responsible for sight.
What is the occipital lobe?
Vibrations of this structure cause the 3 ossicles in the middle ear to vibrate.
What is the tympanic membrane of eardrum?
Realizing that an object does not grow even though the image reflected on the retina does change as the object gets closer.
What is size constancy?
Inability to smell.
What is anosmia?
Neural impulses travel through different routes to arrive at different areas in the brain.
What is coding?
Process by which lens changes shape to focus image on the back of the retina.
What is accommodation?
Area responsible for converting sound waves to neural impulses.
What are hair cells?
Substance released when cells are injured.
What is substance P or prostaglandins?
Smells can trigger emotional responses by stimulating this area in the brain.
What is the limbic system?
Mixing of two or more senses.
What is synesthesia?
Area where one can find the greatest concentration of cones on the back of the eye.
What is the fovea?
Ringing sensation in the ears.
What is tinnitis?
Fusion of different images received by 2 eyes into one image, allowing one to determine depth.
What are binocular cues?
Taste buds can be found in this area of the mouth.
What are papillae?
Any background stimulus that interferes with our ability to detect other stimuli.
What is noise?
Results from images being focused in the front of the retina because the eyeball is elongated.
What is nearsightedness of myopia?
Different frequency sounds bend hair cells at different locations on the basilar membrane.
What is the place theory?
Previous exposure, expectations, assumptions and expectations influence how we interpret the world around us.
What is perceptual set?
Airborne chemicals secreted by some animals to generate a social response in others.
What is pheromones?
Our ability to detect change depends on the original intensity of a stimulus.
What is Weber's law or just noticeable difference?