I can see!
These photoreceptors are helpful in dimly lit environments.
What are rods?
This electronic device helps people with sensorineural hearing loss by bypassing the damaged inner ear and directly stimulating the auditory nerve.
What is a cochlear implant?
This is the brain’s ability to process many aspects of a problem simultaneously, especially in vision.
What is parallel processing?
This kind of adaptation occurs when you get used to a stimulus, like forgetting a pencil behind your ear.
What is sensory adaptation?
This mental predisposition leads you to perceive one thing and not another.
What is a perceptual set?
These photoreceptors allow us to see color and are helpful in bright lighting conditions.
What are cones?
This type of hearing loss affects the inner ear (cochlea) or the auditory nerve that carries sound signals to the brain.
What is sensorineural deafness?
This psychology term describes infantile physical features (big eyes, round face, small nose, etc.) that trigger caregiving and affectionate responses in adults.
What is kinderschema?
This is the lowest amount of a stimulus that can be detected 50% of the time.
What is the absolute threshold?
People from different countries are generally influenced by this type of perception.
What is cultural?
This nerve carries the image and sensory information from the retina to the back of the brain where it is processed.
What is the optic nerve?
This type of deafness occurs when you rupture your eardrum from mechanical damage, such as while water skiing.
What is conduction deafness?
This is the process of correcting existing knowledge due to new information.
What is accommodation?
This describes the smallest change in a stimulus that can be detected at least 50% of the time.
What is the just noticeable difference (JND)?
Even though trees look like they are getting smaller in size, this set of perceptual constancies allows you to know they are actually the same height.
What is size constancy?
These cells transmit retinal information to other parts of the brain and play a crucial role in the transduction process of the eyes.
What are ganglion cells?
These three tiny bones in the middle ear, also called the malleus, incus, and stapes, make up a functional piston.
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
This is the process of converting physical energy (light, sound, chemical signals, etc.) into neural signals the brain can understand.
What is transduction?
This kind of adaptation occurs when you adjust emotionally, such as no longer being angry about parking far from work.
What is emotional adaptation?
This cue involves objects moving relative to us, with closer objects appearing to move faster.
What is relative motion?
These two parts of the eye work like a camera to control the amount of light entering the eye.
What are the pupil and iris?
This theory states that the rate of nerve impulses in the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone, allowing us to sense pitch.
What is frequency theory?
This principle states that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage rather than a constant amount.
What is Weber’s law?
This monocular depth cue involves perceiving objects as moving faster when they are closer to you.
What is motion parallax?
This process requires us to use imagination and expectations.
What is top-down?