Occurs when sensory receptors change their sensitivity to the stimulus.
What is sensory adaptation
100
rods and cones
What are the two kinds of photoreceptors?
100
Nerve that delivers sound to the brain
What is the auditory nerve?
100
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
What is Gestalt?
200
Gathers light, has five layers and protects the outer eye.
What is the cornea
200
a membrane of the middle ear that vibrates in response to sound waves
What is the ear drum?
200
Clusters of bumps on the tongue that contain taste receptors.
What are taste buds?
200
We perceive a complete image even when our senses are missing information, our brain fills in the rest.
What is closure?
300
the lowest level of a stimulus – light, sound, touch, etc. – that an organism could detect
What is absolute threshold?
300
Dialate during the fight flight response
What are the pupils
300
Hammer, anvil, stirrup.
What are the three bones of the inner ear?
300
Receptors that responds to damaging or potentially damaging stimuli.
What are pain receptors?
300
We want to see smooth continuous patterns, not disrupted ones
What is continuity?
400
The detection of a stimulus depends on both the intensity of the stimulus and the physical and psychological state of the individual when they sense it
What is signal detection
400
Gives us night vision.
What are the rods, specifically, their pigment rhodopsin?
400
Hair cells in the inner ear that do not regenerate when damaged
What are cilia?
400
The awareness of your muscles, joints and body's position in space.
What is your kinesthetic sense
400
We think of similar objects as belonging to each other.
What is similarity?
500
the smallest amount by which two sensory stimuli can differ in order for an individual to perceive them as different
What is difference threshold?
500
Similar to the cochlea of the ear.
What is the retina?
500
The temporal lobes.
Where is sound interpreted/processed?
500
This sense contributes to the body's sense of balance.