Sensation
The process by which a form of physical energy is converted into a coded neural signal that can be processed by the nervous system
What is transduction?
The school of psychology that maintained sensations are actively processed according to consistent perceptual rules, producing meaningful whole perceptions.
What is gestalt psychology?
The process by which the lens changes shape to focus incoming light so that it falls on the retina is:
A cluster of neurons in the hypothalamus that governs the timing of circadian rhythms
What is the SCN or suprachiasmatic nucleus?
The splitting of consciousness into two or more simultaneous streams of mental activity
What is dissociation?
The smallest possible just noticeable difference between two stimuli that can be detected half the time
What is difference threshold?
Relative size, overlap, aerial perspective, texture gradient and linear perspective are all examples of :
What is a monocular cue?
The rate of vibration or number of waves per second
What is frequency?
Vivid sensory phenomena that occur during the onset of sleep.
What is hypnagogic hallucinations?
Hilgard's term for the dissociated stream of mental activity that continues during hypnosis
What is the hidden observer?
A principle of sensation that holds that the size of the jnd will vary depending on its relations to the strength of the original stimulus
What is Weber's Law?
A famous visual illusion involving the misperception of the identical length of two lines
What is Muller-Lyer Illusion?
1 million axons of the ganglion cells bundle together to form this
What is the optic nerve?
The beginnings of delta waves show up in this stage of sleep
What is Stage 2 of NREM sleep?
Tom Petty's death of accidental overdose is an example of the ________________effects of depressant drugs.
What is additive?
The finding that repeated exposure to a stimulus increases a person's preference for that stimulus
What is the mere exposure effect?
The perception of an object remaining the same size despite changing images on the retina is called:
What is size constancy?
The two theories of color
What is The trichromatic theory of color vision & The opponent-process theory of color vision?
Model that emphasizes the continuity of waking and dreaming cognition and states dreaming is like thinking under conditions of reduced sensory input and the absence of voluntary control
What is the neurocognitive model of dreaming?
Name three popular designer "club" drugs named in the book
What are:
MDMA (Ecstasy)
PCP
Ketamine?
A bee's wing falling on your cheek from a height of about a half an inch is an example of _______________of _________________.
What is Absolute threshold of touch?
The Gestalt principles of organization are:
What are the law of similarity?
The law of closure?
The law of good continuation? And
The Law of proximity?
Embedded in the _________________________are the sensory receptors for sound called_______________.
What is the Basilar membrane hair cells?
Name three examples of parasomnias
At this Blood Alcohol Level, about half of the people die
What is .40 BAL?