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These three physical characteristics of light help us determine our sensory experience of them.
What is wavelength, amplitude, and purity?
100
The part of the eye that carries information to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
100
In sound waves, this determines the pitch we experience.
What is frequency?
100
Before our brain can allow us to see, our eye has to receive light energy and ___________ it into a neural message.
What is transduce?
100
Awareness of ourselves and our surroundings.
What is consciousness?
200
Reoccuring problem with falling or remaining asleep.
What is insomnia?
200
This is the retina's are of central focus where the cones cluster around.
What is the fovea?
200
Taste and smell are both what kind of senses?
What is chemical?
200
This theory claims that the pitch we hear depends on which part of the cochlea is being stimulated.
What is place theory?
200
There are 4 sleep cycles during a night and each one is ______ minutes and consists of ________ stages.
What is 90 and 5?
300
This is what Freud called the underlying meaning of the dream.
What is latent content?
300
Most people with color deficient vision are not actually "color blind". They just lack the _________ or _________ cones; or sometimes both.
What is red and green?
300
This theory helps explain the after-image effect.
What is opponent processing theory?
400
For their difference to be perceptible, two stimuli must differ by a constant _________________, not a constant _____________.
What is proportion and amount?
400
Large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.
What is delta waves?
400
Sleep stage during which vivid dreams usually occur.
What is REM?
400
These drugs distort perception and evoke sensory images without outward stimuli.
What is hallucinogens?
400
These drugs excite neural activity and arouse body functions.
What is stimulants?
500
This is the minimum difference a person can detect between any two stimuli 50% of the time (aka just noticable difference)
What is difference threshold?
500
This is the pathway light travels through the eye. Fist, light enters through the cornea, then (name 3 other structures for light's pathway)
What is pupil, lens, and retina?
500
This theory suggests that large fiber activity in the spinal cord could prevent pain signals from reaching the brain.
What is gate-control theory?
500
This theory suggests that dreams reflect what we known and understand about our world through the unconscious.
What is cognitive theory?
500
REM sleep ________ as the night progresses while deep sleep _______________.
What is increases and decreases?