chemical and body senses
The chemical sense that allows you to smell
olfaction
The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment.
sensation
what allows light into the eye
iris
the process of organizing and interpreting sensory info, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events
the sense or act of hearing
audition
our movement sense-our system for sensing the position and movement of individual body arts.
Kinesthesia
the principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage(rather than a constant stimulation)
Weber's law
neurons that fire in response to specific edges, lines, angles, and movements
feature detectors
The lowest point of when you can precieve a sound in a quiet room.
absolute threshold
when you listen to music, the sound waves cause your __ to vibrate first
eardrum
when our brain circuits processing our physical sensations sometimes interact with brain circuits responsible for cognition.
embodied cognition
top-down processing
cones are located in the cluster in the center of your retina, but what is located around the retina's outer regions.
rods
when adding small amounts at different times until you receive a difference of your previous outcome
difference threshold
when you listen to a piano player and they play a higher note as you recognize that the note was on the right side of the keyboard. this is an example of what theory?
place theory
the loss of dizziness would be considered a disruption of what sense?
Vestibular sense
Tyshane went swimming with friends who did not want to get into the pool because the water felt cold.he said he was cold at first but then adapted to the temperature, due to?
sensory adaptation
When we know the color of a printed page that has not changed as it moves from the sunlight into a shadow is?
perceptual consistency
German scientist who studied our awareness of these faint stimuli called absolute threshold.
Gustav Fenchner
after being exposed to loud music for many years, what types of deafness is more likely in that musician
sensorineural deafness
The gate control-theory states that "gates" for pain must be open in order for the brain to receive pain messages from the body. Where are these gates located?
spinal chord
As Jeff reads his psychology textbook he is able to convert the light waves into signals that his brain can interpret due to the concept of?
perception
which scientists showed that our visual processing deconstructs visual images and resembles them in 1979?
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
when looking at a painting you tend to look at the colors, brush strokes, and shapes instead of noticing the whole meaning and idea of it.
bottom-up processing
When you're listening to music and the sound waves produced by the instruments and the singers travel through the air and enter your ear. These sound waves cause vibrations in your eardrum, which are then transmitted to...
Cochlear