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Perception

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How we experience objects external to ourselves

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Sensation

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How we experience our internal experiences with objects

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What are the five senses lol

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Sight, touch, taste, smell, and hearing

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What do some people claim we have?

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ESP, extra sensory perception (an extra sense)

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What is the most important sense?

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Vision, as an animal with bad eyesight will not survive very long

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Cornea

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The transparent covering at the front of the eye

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Pupil

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The dark centre of the eye; surrounded by the iris

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Lens

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Located right behind the iris responsible for focusing images

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Retina

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A complex layer of cells along the back of the eye

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Photoreceptors

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Specialized cells in the retina responsible for changing light signals into neutral signals that can be read by the brain

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Rods

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Photoreceptors located around the edge of the retina, responsible for dealing with dim light

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Cones

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Photoreceptors concentrated in the centre of the retina, dealing with colours

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Optic nerve

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All the tails of the ganglion cells bundled

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Blind spot

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The spot in a person’s general area of vision where there is no sight possible

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What is the order in which the parts of the eye receive information?

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Cornea>pupil>lens>retina>photoreceptors>bipolar cells>ganglion cells>optic nerve>brain

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What are the nanometers of light waves that humans can see?

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360 nm to 760 nm

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Wavelength

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The distance between one peak and the next

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Colours are different in what way?

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The wavelengths vary

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Which chromosome is colourblindness carried on?

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The X chromosome, making it more common in men

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What is monochromatism?

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Colourblindness where they can only see in black, grey, and white

  • 10 million people suffer from this type
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What is protanopia

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Perceives blue and yellow, and shades vary to watery with grey, no others recognized in between

  • one person of males, and 0.02 percent of females have this
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What is deuteranopia

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Grey is seen where it shouldn’t be seen—at 498 nm rather than 492 nm

  • affects one percent males, 0.01 percent females
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What is Tritanopia

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Extremely rare, individuals experience green at lover wavelengths, grey at 570 nm, and red at higher wave lengths—no colours in between

  • affects 0.002 percent males, 0.001 females
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Primary colours

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Red, yellow, and blue; used to make secondary colours

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Secondary colours

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Created from two primaries

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Tertiaries (immediate)

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Created with one primary and one secondary

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Complimentary colours

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Colours opposite of each other on the colour wheel

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Tint

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White + colour

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Shad3

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Black + colour

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Monochromatic

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A composition created using varying hues of the same colour

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Cool colours

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Green, blue, and purple

Calming

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Warm colours

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Red, orange, yellow

Evoke activity

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Who discovered that a ray of light has all colours of the rainbow in it?

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Isaac Newton, with a prism

Called it a spectrum

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What can affect colour

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Weather and lighting situations

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Critical periods

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Times in development when certain skills must be acquired or they will never appear (this can also affect vision)

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Why do optical illusions occur?

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Because the brain confuses the information sent to it and makes us perceive that we are seeing something we aren’t

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Those with hearing loss often feel isolated when talking with others because of what?

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Because hearing is extremely important in spoken information

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Pinna

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The outer shell of the ear

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Cochlea

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A fluid-filled tube; primary organ for hearing

40
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In what order does the ear receive sound waves?

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Pinna>tympanic membrane (eardrum)>hammer, anvil, and stirrup>cochlea>teeny hairs>auditory nerve>brain

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Frequency

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Measures the amount of cycles a wave (light or sound) travels in a given time

-measured in Hertz (Hz), sharp, high sounds have a higher frequency

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Amplitude

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Measured by the distance between the top height of the wave and the very bottom of the wave (for sound or light)

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Auditory cortex

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The part of the brain that receives and translates auditory information

44
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What are the two senses in humans that respond to chemical properties?

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Taste and smell

45
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How is the tongue designed?

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To taste bitter, sweet, sorry, and salty flavours

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How do we taste?

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The receptors on our tongues start to produce electrical impulses when they come in contact with the various chemicals in food; these are relayed to the brain

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What sense do we know the least about?

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Smell

48
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Pheromones

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Undetectable chemical scents released by the bodies of humans and animals

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What is the cutaneous sense?

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The sense of touch

50
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Placebo

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A pill, treatment, or potion that doesn’t affect the body in any way, although the person taking it believed it will have a medical effect

51
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Pain is dependent on two things: what are they?

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Physical pain perception and mental perception

52
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How can cultural differences affect pain response?

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In cultures where showing you’re in pain isn’t socially acceptable, individuals will hide their pain.

In cultures where showing pain is acceptable, the reaction is more extreme

53
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Phantom limbs

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A phenomenon where pain supposedly occurs in a limb that has been amputated

54
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Attention

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Our ability to go into a state of focused awareness, therefore readying our bodies to respond to what we’re focusing on

55
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Is multitasking an accurate way of describing doing two things at once?

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No, because your brain shifts from each activity, and you will never be able to do them as well as if you were doing them alone

56
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Sensory overload

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Too much information coming into one’s senses

57
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What has happened in sensory deprivation studies?

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Subject’s brain waves have slowed, some experienced hallucinations, and many dropped out of the experiment after a few days

Their perceptions were distorted, and took several hours to return to normal

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