Psychology Ch.4
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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show | illusion
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show | sensation
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the brain's interpretation of raw sensory inputs | show 🗑
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the first step in sensation; converting external energies or substances into a "language" the nervous system understands, such as electrical signals within neurons | show 🗑
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show | sense receptor
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show | sensory adaptation
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study of how we perceive sensory stimuli based on their physical characteristics | show 🗑
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the lowest level of a stimulus that we can detect on 50 percent of the trials when no other stimuli of that type are present | show 🗑
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show | JND just noticeable difference
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show | Weber's law
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describes how we detect stimuli under uncertain conditions | show 🗑
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tendencies to make one type of guess over another when we're in doubt about whether a weak signal is present or absent under noisy conditions | show 🗑
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show | specific nerve energies
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show | phosphenes
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show | synesthesia
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show | parallel processing
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set formed when expectations influence perceptions | show 🗑
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show | perceptual constancy
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allows us to select one sensory channel and turn off the others | show 🗑
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views attention as a bottleneck through which info passes | show 🗑
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ability to pick out an important message | show 🗑
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show | inattentional blindness
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failure to detect obvious changes in one's environment | show 🗑
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show | binding problem
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colored part of the eye - controls how much light enters the eye | show 🗑
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show | pupil
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curved, transparent layer covering the iris and pupil - bends light to focus incoming visual image at back of the eye | show 🗑
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show | lens
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show | retina
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show | fovea
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show | rods
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show | cones
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the time it takes rods to gain their maximum sensitivity to light | show 🗑
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show | optic nerve
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place where the optic nerve connects to the retina | show 🗑
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our ability to use certain minimal patterns to identify objects using feature detection cells to see lines and edges | show 🗑
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Gestalt principles | show 🗑
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Gestalt: objects physically close to each other tend to be perceived as unified wholes | show 🗑
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show | similarity
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Gestalt: we still perceive objects as wholes, even if other objects block part of them | show 🗑
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Gestalt: when partial visual info is present, our brains fill in what's missing | show 🗑
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show | symmetry
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show | figure-ground
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an image we can perceive two ways | show 🗑
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the ability to see spatial relations in 3 dimensions | show 🗑
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depth cue that relies on one eye alone | show 🗑
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depth cue that relies on two eyes | show 🗑
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our sense of hearing | show 🗑
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show | pitch
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show | loudness
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the quality/complexity o the sound | show 🗑
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show | outer ear
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transmits sound from eardrum to inner ear; comprised of ossicles - hammer, anvil, stirrup | show 🗑
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sound is converted from vibrations to neural activity | show 🗑
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show | cochlea
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tissue containing the hair cells necessary for hearing | show 🗑
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show | basilar membrane
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specific place along the basilar membrane matches a tone with a specific pitch | show 🗑
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airborne chemicals that interact with receptors in the lining of our nasal passages | show 🗑
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tastes we can detect: | show 🗑
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sense receptor in the tongue that responds to tastes | show 🗑
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show | pheromones
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system we use for touch and pain | show 🗑
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