The process by which we select, organize, and interpret sensory information in order to recognize meaningful objects and events is called
What is perception
100
The amplitude of electromagnetic waves determines the _____________ of light
What is brightness
100
The simultaneous stimulation of adjacent cold and warmth spots on the skin produces the sensation of
What is Hot
100
The visual cliff was used to determine if babies are born with or needed to develop what perception?
What is depth perception
100
Knowing than an apple is red, whether the lights are bright or dim, demonstrates which principle?
What is color constancy
200
Bottom-up processing involves analysis that begins with the
What are sensory receptors
200
The process by which the lens changes shape to focus images on the retina
What is Accommodation
200
What is one reason why a player who was injured in a volleyball game would not "notice" the severity of the pain until after the game?
What are psychological factors (distraction, emotion etc)
200
Creators of 3D movies use what concept to create the 3D effect?
What is retinal disparity
200
According to Weber's Law, for a difference to be noticed, the 2 stimuli must differ by a constant
What is proportion not amount
300
Because she was listening to the news on the radio, Mrs. Shultz didn't perceive a word her husband was saying. Her experience best illustrates
What is selective attention
300
This is the area of the retina where the optic nerve leaves the eye
What is the blind spot
300
The gate control theory indicates that pain is experienced when what happens
What is small nerve fibers active and open an neural gate in the spinal cord
300
This phenomenon occurs when adjacent lights blink on/off creating the perception of movement
What is the Phi phenomenon
300
The ability to simultaneously process the pitch, loudness, melody and meaning of a song best illustrates:
What is parallel processing
400
The experiment involving someone giving directions to one person, then people walking by with a painting, and the person receiving directions changed - but the person giving directions did not notice - best illustrates what concept?
What is change blindness
400
The rate at which impulses travel up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of the tone being heard according to which theory?
What is frequency theory
400
According to this, people have a hard time tasting food when sick because they cannot smell
What is sensory interaction
400
This concept identifies that our mental predisposition greatly influences top down what we perceive
What is the Perceptual Set
400
These cells respond to a scene's specific edges, lines, angles and movements
What are feature detector cells
500
If Sarah and John are sitting together, and John smells smoke from a nearby bonfire before Sarah, then John likely has a lower _____________ for the smell of smoke than Sarah.
What is absolute threshold
500
Why is it more difficult to locate sounds that are directly overhead or in front of us?
What is the sound reaches both ears simultaneously
500
This sense has a direct tie to our limbic centers associated with memory and emotion
What is smell
500
Name the 5 types of grouping
What are proximity, similarity, continuity, connectedness, closure
500
When given a cluster of sensations, people organize them into a form or whole, a concept known as