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psych-Test2
Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sensation | Elementry components of expeirence(color, temperature) |
| Perception | is it meaningful? |
| Transduction | translating external messages into brain language |
| range of visible light | 400nm --> 700nm |
| Short WL | violet & blue |
| Medium WL | yellow & green |
| Long WL | red |
| Hue | experience of WL |
| Brightness | Experience of intensity |
| Purity | Richness |
| Frequency | Rate of vibrating stimuli |
| Pitch | Psych experience from the particular frequency |
| Intensity | change in amplitude of thw wave |
| Pina | Captures sound |
| Eardrum | tympanic membrane |
| middle ear | helps intensify vibration |
| cochlea | sound is translated into nerve impulses |
| basilar membrane | runs throughout the cochlea |
| Place theory | locatio underlines the perception of pitch |
| frequency theory | pitch perception is determined partly by neural impulses |
| auditory cortex | frequency sesitive |
| sound localizing | determine location |
| rods | active in dim light |
| cones | active in high light, sense color |
| bottom-up | actual physical message |
| top-down | what does it mean |
| law of proximity | things are close together and alike we group them |
| law of common fate | moving in the same direction we group them |
| attention | auotomactic, effortless, and fast |
| gate-control theory | pain can be blocked |
| vestibular sacs | responsible for balance |
| olfaction | sense of smell |
| gustation | sense of taste |
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