Sensation & Perception Flashcards
A Monocular cue. Closer objects block farther ones.
Interposition
Three color receptors (red, green, blue).
Trichromatic Theory
Height of a wave.
Amplitude
Gestalt concept-Distinguishing objects from background.
Figure and Ground
Missing changes in the environment when vision is interrupted.
Change Blindness
Focusing on one voice in a crowd.
Cocktail Party Effect
Sense of taste.
Gustation
Inner ear canals for balance.
Semicircular Canals
Missing visible objects when focused elsewhere
Inattentional Blindness
Focusing on a particular stimulus.
Selective Attention
Clearer vision for nearby objects.
Nearsightedness
Responding to visual stimuli without conscious experience.
Blindsight
Focuses images on the retina.
Lens
Hearing loss from cochlea or nerve damage.
Sensorineural Deafness
Perception from Sensory receptors to brain.
Bottom-Up Processing
Sense of smell.
Olfactory System
Sense of balance and body position.
Vestibular Sense
Inability to recognize faces.
Prosopagnosia
A Monocular cue. Hazy objects are farther away.
Relative Clarity
Ability to perceive sound frequency.
Pitch Perception
Converting stimulus energies into neural impulses.
Transduction
Cells- detect color and detail; for bright light.
Cones
Sensory control center in the brain.
Thalamus
Pitch caused by all hairs in Cochlea moving together.
Volley Theory
Two stimuli must differ by a constant percentage to be perceived as different.
Weber’s Law