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What are psychophysics?

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The study of how physical stimuli are translated into psychological experience

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What is the difference between sensation and perception?

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Sensation is the stimulation of sense organs

Perception is the selection, organization, and interpretation of sensory output

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What is a threshold?

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A dividing point between energy levels that do and do not have a detectable effect- difference threshold

Ie. Turning music up and down till you notice a difference

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What is an absolute threshold?

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The minimum amount of stimulation that an organism can detect 0—> something

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True or false, for an absolute threshold to exist, it must occur 50% of the time

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True

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What is a just noticeable difference?

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The smallest difference in the amount of stimulation that a specific sense can detect.

Eg. Smallest amount of salt you can add to notice difference

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True or false, an absolute threshold is the just noticeable difference from nothing

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True

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Explain the signal detection theory

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Proposes that he detection of stimuli involves decision processes as well as sensory processes influenced by a variety of factors

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Explain sensory adaptation

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A gradual decline in sensitivity due to prolonged stimulation

Eg. Smelly garbage

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The smallest amount of tumult ion you can detect is (0—>something)

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Absolute threshold

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Light waves vary in amplitude, wavelength and purity. Explain what amplitude, wavelength, and purity are.

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Amplitude– height
Wavelength– distance between peaks
Purity– how aired the mix of light is

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True or false, humans can only perceive the wavelengths of light?

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True

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what are the two functions of the eye?

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to channel light into the neural tissue, and to house that tissue

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When referring to the eye, what is the lens?

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Transparent eye structure that focuses the light rays falling on the retina

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What is the difference between nearsightedness and farsightedness?

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nearsightedness– close objects seen clear, far objects seem blurry
farsightedness– far objects seen clear, close objects are seen blurry

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When does nearsightedness occur? When does farsightedness occur? What is “wrong” with the eye?

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When the cornea bends the light too much (nearsightedness)

When the eyeball is too short
farsightedness

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what are saccades?

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When the eyes are scanning an environment and making brief fixations

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What is the retina?

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The neural tissue lining the inside back surface of the eye

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What does the retina do?

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absorbs light, processes images, and sends visual info to the brain

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In the retina, what are the differences of the cones and the rods?

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cones– specialized visual receptors that play key roles in daylight vision and colour vision.
Rods– specialized visual receptors that play a key role in night vision and peripheral vision

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True or false, the rods and cones on the retina funnel signals to the receptive field

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true

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What is the receptive field?

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he retinal area that when stimulated affects the firing of that cell (for example, the signal towards the brain and nearby cells)

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What is lateral antagonism and when does it occur?

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occurs when neural activity in a cell opposes activity in surrounding cells , when the excited neuron reduced activity of its neighbours

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What is the fovea? (in the retina)

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tiny spot in the center of the retina that contains only cones– visual acuity is best here

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What is the optic chiasm?

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the point at which the optic nerves from the inside of the eye cross over and project to the opposite half f the brain

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from the optic chiasm, where do the visual signals travel?

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thalamus– brains major relay centre or the

Superior colliculus

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what are the main visual pathways that the main visual pathway splits into?

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magonocellar and the parvocellar channels

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where does most visual input arrive?

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the primary visual cortex in the occipital lobe

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What do feature detector neurons respond to?

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very specific features of more complex stimuli ex. lines, edges, angle or movement

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What is visual agnosia?

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the inability to recognize objects

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What is propagnosia?

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the inability to recognize familiar faces

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true of false, perceiving colour is a function of dominant wavelengths

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true

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What colour are the longest wavelengths and what colour are the shortest?

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red and violet

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What is subtractive colour mixing?

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removing some wavelengths of light
leave less light than was originally there
happens when mixing paint (everything turns brown)

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What is additive colour mixing?

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superimposing light, putting more light in the mixture than exists

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Explain the trichromatic theory of colour vision

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the human eye has 3 types of receptors with differing sensitivity to different light weave lengths

red, green, and blue

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plain the opponent process thoery

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colour perception depends on receptors making antagonistic responses to 3 pairs of colours

think= negative colours then looking at a wall and seeing regular colours

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what is a perceptual set?

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readiness to perceive stimulus in a particular way.. expectations

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What is feature analysis?

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the process of detecting specific elements and assembling them into more complex ideas or shapes
ex. lines–> 2D shape–> 3D shape

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explain the Phi phenonomenon

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the illusion of movement created by presenting visual stimulus in rapid succession
ex. movies and tv

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what are the two perceiving forms?

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bottom up processing ( indiv. to the whole)

top down processing (progression from whole to the elements, ex. big to small.)

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Explain distal stimuli

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stimuli that lie in the distance outside the body

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Explain proximal stimuli

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stimulus energies impinge directly on sensory receptors

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how do people bridge the gap between distal and proximal stimuli?

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by making a perceptual hypothesis

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what is a binocular depth?

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differing views based on two eyes

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What is retinal disparity?

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objects projected slightly differently on the retina

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what is monocular depth?

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distance clues based on image in either eye alone

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The Gestalt principles are used to help us…?

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organize elements in a scene

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true or false, sound waves are measured in amplitude, wavelength and purity

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true

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what does the external ear depend on to hear things?

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vibration of air molecules and the pinna (a sound collecting cone)

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What does the middle ear have to depend on to hear things?

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the vibration of moveable bones called the ossicles

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What are ossicles?

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tiny bones in the middle ear (hammer, stirrup, and anvil)

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what does the inner ear depend on to hear things?

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waves in a fluid and the cochlea

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Where is the coclea located?

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inner ear

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what is the basilar membrane,and what is it’s function?

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membrane that runs down the cochlea and has auditory receptors that converts stimulation into neural impulses

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what is the place theory of hearing?

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the pitch perception is based off of where the vibrations occur along different parts of the basilar membrane

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what is the frequency theory of hearing?

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the pitch perception that is baed on the rate that the basilar membrane vibrates (as a whole)

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Between the place theory and the frequency theory, which is based on vibration as a whole, and which is based on vibration of the hair-like receptors?

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place theory– vibration of certain receptors

frequency theory- vibration of the whole basilar membrane

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what is auditory localization?

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locating the source of the sound in space

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What are the 2 cues of auditory localization?

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intensity and timing

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When referring too the gustatory system (taste) what are papillae?

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knoblike elevations on the tongue containing taste buds

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What do gustatory receptors do?

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absorb the dissolved chemicals and trigger neural impulses to the thalamus then insular cortex

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what are the 4 primary tastes?

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sour, sweet, salty, and bitter the fifth taste is umami (MSG)

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What is the pathway of a physical stimuli travelling through the nasal passage? (hint: 3 steps)

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1) travels through nasal passage
2) stimulates the olfactory cilia
3) olfactory nerves transmit neural impulses through the bulb to the brain

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How many olfactory receptors do humans have?

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350

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True or false, smell is the only sensory system in which incoming info is not routed through the thalamus before it projects to the cortex

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true

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What is a physical stimulus hen referring to our sense of touch?

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mechanical, thermal, and chemical energy that impinge on the skin

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what is psychological perception?

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warm/cold, pressure, pain, position, movement

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when you feel pressure, how does it happen? 4 steps

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Nerve fibres carry info about stimulation
routed through spinal cord to the brainstem
then thalamus
then somatosensory cortex

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what are the two types of pathways to the brain?

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1) fast pathways –> A-Delta fibres register localized pain and relays it quickly (paper cut)
20 slow pathways –> C-Fibres less localized and longer lasting aching pain)

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Explain the gate control theory

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incoming pain sensations must pass through a gate in the spinal cord that can be closed, thus blocking ascending pain signals

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True or false, glial cells contribute to moderating chronic pain?

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true

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What does the kinestethic system do?

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monitors the position of various body parts; receptors are located in joints and muscles

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what does the vestibular system do?

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sense of balance and equilibrium whole moving your body. depends on the semi-circular canals in the inner ear

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Explain the door int he face technique

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making a large request first that is likely to be turned down to increase the chance that people will agree to a smaller request

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What does webers law state?

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that the size of a just noticeable difference is a constant proportion of the size of the initial stimulus

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What is Freshner known for?

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thresholds

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Explain the signal-detection theory

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the detection of stimuli involves decision processes as well as sensory processes, which are both influenced by a variety of factors besides stimulus intensity

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true or false, psychophysicists use a variety of methods to relate sensory inputs to subjective perception. Absolute threshold is not really that absolute

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true.

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true or false, absolute thresholds are not that absolute

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true

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true or false, fechners law states that you need a larger and larger increase in a stimulus o produce a just noticeable difference

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true

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does the signal detection theory replace Fechner’s threshold theory with he concept of detectability and emphasises that factors besides stimulus intensity influence detectability

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true

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Can perception happen without our awareness?

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yes

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What is the optic disk?

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a hole in the retina where the optic nerve fibres exit the eye

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the receptive field of a visual cell, is a retinal area that, when stimulated affects….?

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affects the firing of that cell

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What is an afterimage?

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an image that persists after a stimulus is removed

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the opponent process theory of colour vision holds that ?

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colour perception depends on receptors that make antagonistic responses to thee pairs of colours

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What are the 5 principles of the Gestalt theory of perceptual organization?

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1) proximity
2) closure
3) similarity
4) simplicity
5) continuity

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true or false, perceptions of colour are primarily a function of light wavelength

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true

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what theory do we use today: the trichromatic theory (3 types of receptors) or the pponent process theory (sensors depend on antagonistic responses)

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both

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What is the opponent process theory?

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colour perception depends on receotirs that make antagonistic responses o red vs green, blue vs yellow, and black vs white

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what does form perception depend on?

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the selection and interpretation of sensory inputs

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what is a motion parallax?

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images of objects at different distances moving across the retina at different rates

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true or false, the motion parallax was one of the earliest areas of study in depth perception

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true

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What are the two types of monocular cues?

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deoth cues and motion parallax

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what are pictorial depth cues?

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clues about the distance that can be given in a flat picture

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what is a perceptual constancy?

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a tendency to experience a stable perception in the face of continually changing sensory input

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What happens when the pupil constricts?

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less light comes into the eye, sharpens the image

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true or false, if saccades didn’t exist, you would have bad vision

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true

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Can studying saccades help us learn more about huntingtons disease?

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yes

100
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what is the retina, and what are it’s 3 duties?

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lining inside the back of the eye, it absorbs light, processes images, and sends info to the brain

101
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True or false, the retina is a part of the central nervous system located in the eye

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true

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what are the two types of receptors in the retina?

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rods and cones

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In our retinas, do we have more rods or cones?

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Rods

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do rods or cones provide better visual acuity?

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cones

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Are rods or cones concentrated most heavily in the centre of the retina?

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cones

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do either rods or cones handle the majority of peripheral vision?

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rods

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What happens to light going into the eye? (hint: 4 steps)

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1) light strike retina’s receptors (rods and cones)
2) send impulses along the optic nerve
3) leave the eye through optic disk
4) goes to the brain

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what is the lateral geniculate nucleus? (LGN)

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where axons from the retina synapse , visual signals are processed here

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what happens in the magnocelular and parvocelluar channels?

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parallell processing (extracting different kinds of info from the same input)

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What is Hubel known for?

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identifying various types of specialized cells in the visual cortext that respond to different stimuli

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What are the 5 principles of Gestalt perception?

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proximity– objects close are group together
closure– viewers supply missing pieces
similarity– elements that are similar are grouped t
simplicity– organize things in the simplest way pos
continutity– see things that produce smooth continuation

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What is convergence?

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sensing the eyes converging toward eachother as they focus on closer objects

113
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true or false, depth perception depends primarily on monocular cues

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true

114
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what have optical illusions proved about the perceptual hypothesis?

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it is inaccurate

115
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do vision for perception and vison for action travel a different pathway to the brain?

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yes

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What is the name for collection of rod and cone receptors that funnel signals to a particular visual cell in the retina?

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receptive field

117
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e visual pathway to the dorsal lobes is as the visual pathway to the temporal lobes is to…

a) the what pathway- the where pathway
b) the where pathway- the what pathway

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b

118
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an artist draws converging lines to that a set of train track appears to go off into the distance. What is the name for this monocular cue for depth perception?

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linear perspective

119
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what perceptual cue is manipulated in a 3D movie?

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convergence

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