Sight and Sound
Perception
Other senses
Thresholds (mostly)
2025 in Review
100
This characteristic of a lightwave determines its color
wavelength/frequency
100
This ty e of pro es ing is helpi g you ead th s
Top-Down Processing
100
If someone can "hear" color, they have this
synasthesia
100
There is no music on in a room. The lowest volume you'd have to play the music in order for you to hear it 50% of the time would meet this.
Absolute threshold
100
Your favorite English teacher and gym teacher who are getting married (I mean, we'll see)
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
200
color vision theory that states we see three basic colors and mix them to see all colors
trichromatic theory
200
Gestalt principle illustrated here
Figure Ground
200
Ba Ba Ba / Fa Fa Fa
McGurk Effect / Sensory Interaction
200
There is music playing in a room. The lowest amount you'd have to lower the volume to detect that it is softer 50% of the time would determine this.
Difference threshold
200
Some In n Outs supposedly removed this order number from their system
67
300
Photoreceptors in the retina that allow us to see color
cones
300
During assembly in the Ube when everyone is talking, this effect helps you to hear someone saying your name even if they are one row behind you
Cocktail party effect
300
If you fall down and go boom, your mommy rubs your owie. This theory is why it makes the pain less
Gate control theory
300
something has to change by percentage not amount in order to cross difference threshold.
Weber's Law
300
Fill in the caption
Get me to God's country
400
Where transduction occurs in the ear
Cochlea
400
You rear end someone because you are trying to text and drive. This phenomenon causes it.
Selective attention / inattentional blindness
400
Crystal filled sacs in your ear help with this sense
Vestibular Sense
400
You eventually get used to the temperature of the water in the pool even though it felt cold at first
Sensory adaptation
400
The most memed thing Justin Bieber said this year
It’s not clocking to you that I’m standing on business
500
Theory that states we hear pitch based on the rate at which sound travels up the auditory nerve
Frequency Theory
500
Phi Phenomenon
500
All five flavor sensations
Sweet Salty Bitter Sour Umami
500
You are waiting for the notification on your phone for your college decision email. This is causing more stimuli to cross your absolute threshold.
Signal Detection Theory
500
This film (surprisingly) won an Oscar for best picture
Anora