The process through which the senses pick up visual, auditory, and other sensory stimuli and transmit them to the brain.
What is Sensation?
100
The tough, transparent, protective layer that covers the front of the eye and bends light rays inward through the pupil.
What is The Cornea?
100
A unit of measurment for the loudness of sounds.
What is Decibel?
100
The sense of smell.
What is Olfaction?
100
The process of sorting through sensations and selecting some of them for further processing.
What is Attention?
200
The process by which the brain activley organizes and interprets sensory information.
What is Perception?
200
The transparent disk-shaped structure behind the iris and the pupil that changes shape as it focuses on objects at varrying distances.
What is The lense?
200
The number of cycles completed by a sound wave in one second, determaining the pitch of the sound; expresses in units called herts.
What is Frequency?
200
The sense of taste.
What is Gustation?
200
A German word that roughly refers to the whole form, pattern, or configuration that a person precieves.
What is Gestalt?
300
Highly specialized cells in the sense organs that detect and respond to one type of sensory stimulus, and converts the stimuli into neural impulses.
What is Sensory Receptors?
300
The layer of tissue that is located on the inner surface of the eyeball and contains the sensory receptors for vision.
What is The Retina?
300
The sensation and process of hearing.
What is Audition?
300
Structures along the sides of many of the tongues papillae that are composed of sixty to one hundred receptor cells for taste.
What is Taste Buds?
300
An expectation of what will be percieved, which can affect what actually is percieved.
What is Perceptual Set?
400
The process in which sensory receptors grow accustom to a constant, unchanging levels of stimuli over time.
What is Sensory Adaptation?
400
The flattening and bilging action of the lense as it focuses images of objects on the retina.
What is Accomodation?
400
The portion of the ear containing the ossiciles, which connect the ear drum to the oval window and amplify sound waves.
What is The Middle ear?
400
The bodies own natural pain killers, which block pain and produce the feeling of well being.
What is Endorphins?
400
The ability to percieve the visual world in three dimensions and to judge distances accuratley.
What is Depth Perception?
500
The process through which sensory receptors convert the sensory stimulation into neural impulses.
What is Transduction?
500
The nerve that carries visual information from each retina to both side sof the brain.
What is Optic nerve?
500
The sense providing information about the position and movement of body parts.
What is Kinesthetic Sense?
500
Two match stick sized structures above the nasal cavaties, where smell sensations first register in the brain.
What is Olfactory Bulbs?
500
The phenomenom that allows us to percieve objects as maintaining stable properties, such as size, shape, and brightness, despite differences and distance, viewing angle, and lighting.