Chapter 4 Flashcards
Pressure, temp, and pain are examples of?
The skin senses
What does a sound’s pitch depend upon?
It’s frequency
What type of cues are perspective and texture gradient?
Monocular cues
Sensitive surface of the eye that acts like the film in a camera?
Retina
Process where we interpret sensory stimulation?
Perception
Name of neuron that is sensitive to light?
Photoreceptors
Tendency to perceive a whole figure even when there are gaps in sensory input?
Closure
What causes sensorineural deafness?
Damage to the inner ear
Illusion of movement produced by rapid progression of images?
Stroboscopic motion
Transmits neural impulses from the cochlea to the brain
Auditory nerve
Process by which we become more sensitive to weak stimuli and less sensitive to unchanging stimuli?
Sensory adaptation
Requires two eyes to be perceived?
Binocular cues
Which stimulus tests the absolute threshold of vision?
A Candle in a dark room
Opening in the colored part of the eye?
Pupil
What is the afterimage of a color?
Complementary color
What are the main colors of the vision spectrum?
R.O.Y. G. B.I.V
What is convergence an example of?
Binocular cues
Sense that helps people know the position and motion their body parts are in with their eyes closed?
Kinesthesis
What does signal-detection theory take into account?
How psychological factors affect perception
What is perception?
Process through which we interpret sensory stimulation.
