Vision
The photoreceptors for color vision
What are cones?
The technical term is "olfaction"
What is smell?
Not noticing the smell of your own house
What is sensory habituation?
Two parallel lines appear to converge in the distance
What is the linear perspective?
Gestalt Principle of relating objects based on their closeness
What is proximity?
The back of the eye
What is the retina?
The technical term is "gustation"
What is taste?
Analyzing a song for the fourth time
What is top-down processing?
One object blocking the view of another
What is the interposition cue?
Individual pictures moving at a fast rate being perceived as motion
What is stroboscopic movement?
Specialized groups of neurons in the brain for identifying certain features
What are feature detectors?
Pain messages take priority over other messages
What is Gate Control Theory?
Failing to perceive a stimulus that is present
What is a false-negative?
Objects further away appear smaller
Societies without right angles do not see this illusion
What is the Muller-Lyer Illusion?
Specific area where cones are located
What is the fovea?
Turns vibrations from the hammer, stirrup, and anvil into neural impulses
Part of top-down processing, a readiness to perceive a familiar stimulus a certain way
What is a perceptual set?
What is retinal disparity?
When a stationary point in a featureless environment appears to move
What is the autokinetic effect?
Our cones work in pairs of red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white
What is Opponent Process Theory?
Our sense of body orientation in space, which comes from the inner ears
What is vestibular sense?
Any change to a stimulus must be proportional or it will not be noticed
What is Weber's Law?
The eyes turning inward to track an object that is coming closer
What is convergence?
This is why the moon appears larger near the horizon
What is the Ponzo Illusion?