Psy. Vocab mod 16 17 18

Question 1

vision

Answer 1

interpret visual environment

Question 2

cornea

Answer 2

protective layer outer eye, bend light waves

Question 3

pupil

Answer 3

opening eye to allow light to enter

Question 4

lens

Answer 4

ways of seeing, light retina

Question 5

visible light

Answer 5

electromagnetic spectrum we see

Question 6

rods

Answer 6

detect black/white/gray

Question 7

bipolar cells

Answer 7

impulses many visual receptor cells

Question 8

cones

Answer 8

daylight/well lit, color saturation

Question 9

ganglion cells

Answer 9

impulses go to these cells

Question 10

optic nerve

Answer 10

neural impulses, eye to brain

Question 11

blind spot

Answer 11

optic nerve leaves eye, no receptor cells

Question 12

fovea

Answer 12

central/focal point of retina

Question 13

trichromatic theory

Answer 13

3 color receptors

Question 14

color blindness

Answer 14

lacking red/green cones

Question 15

oponent process theory

Answer 15

color receptors suppresses other colors

Question 16

feature deduction

Answer 16

nervous system filter stimuli

Question 17

retina

Answer 17

light sensitive inner surface, process visual info

Question 18

occiptal lobe

Answer 18

distance/depth perception, color determination

Question 19

gesalt

Answer 19

organized whole information

Question 20

figure ground

Answer 20

nerves responding to the scene at hand (angles, lines, movement)

Question 21

depth perception

Answer 21

objects 3 dimensions, judges distance

Question 22

parallel processing

Answer 22

brain natural mode processing functions

Question 23

perceptual adaptation

Answer 23

adjust changed sensory output

Question 24

cocktail party phenomenon

Question 25

size constancy

Question 25

shape constancy

Question 26

brightness constancy

Question 27

color constancy

Question 28

difference threshold

Question 29

bottom up processing

Question 30

top down processing

Question 31

absolute threshold

Question 32

signal detection theory

Question 33

subliminal

Question 34

weber’s law

Question 35

sensory adaptation

Question 36

transduction

Question 37

perceptual set

Question 38

hearing/audition

Question 39

sound waves

Question 40

cochlea

Question 41

pitch theories

Question 42

sensorineural deafness

Question 43

gate control theory

Question 44

taste/gustation

Question 45

smell/olfaction

Question 46

kinesthesis

Question 47

vestibular sense

Question 48

extrasensory perception

Question 49

sensory interaction

Question 50

energy senses

Question 51

chemical senses