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Chapter 5 Study Guide Answers Flashcards

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Sensation vs. Perception

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Sensation is what happens when our sensory modalities (vision, hearing, taste, etc.) are activated vs. Perception is how we understand these senses.

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Parts of the eye

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Pupil, Lens, Retina, Fovea and Optic Nerve.

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What is the function of the pupil?

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Light passes through.

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Lens

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Image is projected onto the retina. Gets reflected off the lens.

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Retina

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Light passes through the LENS and an image is projected onto the retina. (Located back of the eye)

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Fovea

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The retina’s area of central focus.

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Optic Nerve

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Carries neural signals to the brain. Cross and go to the opposite side of brain.

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Blind spot

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Peripheral vision. Optic nerve leaves the eye.

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Rods vs. Cones

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Rods is your night vision vs. cones are the color vision DIRECT link to brain.

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Path of the optic Nerve to the Visual Cortex

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Views to the opposite side of the brain.

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Wavelength

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Distance from one wave peak to the next.

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Hue

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The COLOR we see.

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Intensity

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Amount of energy in light waves, determines brightness.

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Opponent process theory of color vision

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Color vision is created when 3 sets of colors oppose each other, Red-green, yellow-blue, white-black. One is turned ON other is OFF.

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Color Constancy

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Knowing an object’s color even if looking through tinted windows.

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Size Constancy

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The illusion of an object looking bigger in a photo because it is closer. However, it’s the same size.

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Shape constancy

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Shape Constancy is the tendency to perceive an object as having the same shape regardless of its orientation or the angle from which we view it.

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Trichromatic Theory of Color vision

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Cones interpret color in teams of three. Red, green, blue on the retina.

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Color Blindness

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Loss of color, usually red and green due to the cones. Occurs mostly in male.

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Parts of the ear

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Pitch, Amplitude, Hair cells, Absolute Pitch

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Pitch

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the wavelength of sound.

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Amplitude

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Loudness

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Hair cells

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Inside the cochlea

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Process of hearing

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Eardrum
Hammer
Anvil
Cochlea
Hair cells -Inside the cochlea
Auditory nerve
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Conduction vs. Sensorineural deafness

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Conduction deafness- Problem with physical ear itself.

Sensorineural Deafness- Problem with nerve pulse transmission, causes nerve deafness.

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Tone deafness

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Cannot tell a difference in pitch.

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Vestibular System

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The cochlea of ear is filled with liquid. It can tell if the person’s head is tilting or not BALANCE SYSTEM.

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Cutaneous system

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The skin.

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Gate Theory of Pain

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THe spinal cord has pain gates that open or close to allow or block pain.

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Substance P

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Pain signal

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Capsaicin

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Mirrors substance P.

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Endorphins

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The body’s natural pain killer. The substance P cannot get through.

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Phantom Limb

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Long Island Medium

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Process of tasting and Smelling (Gustatory and Olfactory sensation)

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Inhaling and goes to the gustatory bulb, tasting is the buds. Which taste can be found in the TEMPORAL LOBE.

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Pheromones

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Chemicals that affect behavior of a species

Like girls in neck and guys in hair

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Sensory Threshold (Absolute threshold)

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When you can detect something 50% of the time.

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Subliminal perception

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Perceiving stimuli below the conscious level. (Little Mermaid)

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Feature detector

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Can detect different features. (Smooth wall)

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Gestalt Psychology

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The whole is better than the parts. (Car)

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Proximity

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Groups nearby figures together. 2 sets of two rather than 4 individual.

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Grouping

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Grouping stimuli together.

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Closure

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Filling in gaps to create a whole picture.

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Continuation

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Recognizing smooth continuous patterns.

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Retinal Disparity

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The image you get from one eye or both eyes when open. (Judge distance)

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Motion Parallax

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The things that are closer to you move by quick, and the farther away look like they are following. (Car and the moon is following you)

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