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