Sensation & Perception

Question 1

Sensation

Answer 1

What an individual feels when a stimulus reacts with a receptor.

Question 2

Sensory Threshold

Answer 2

The necessary strength of a stimulus to instigate an action potential

Question 3

Habituation

Answer 3

The filtering out of unchanging stimuli

Question 4

Cornea

Answer 4

Cover of the eye that angles light into the pupil

Question 5

Aqueous Humor

Answer 5

Clear liquid nourishing and diffracting the eye

Question 6

Pupil

Answer 6

The center region in which light travels through and is dilated by the iris muscles

Question 7

Retina

Answer 7

The back of the eye which contains photoreceptors

Question 8

Lens

Answer 8

Angles light farther to converge on the retina in the back of the eye

Question 9

Fovea

Answer 9

The central region in the retina with the highest concentration of photoreceptors

Question 10

Blind Spot

Answer 10

The location of the optic nerve where there are not photoreceptors

Question 11

Vitreous Humor

Answer 11

Liquid in the eye that bends the light the most… converges on the retina

Question 12

Rods

Answer 12

non-color photoreceptors that work in low light

Question 13

Cones

Answer 13

Photoreceptors that collect the high intensity color light; produce colored vision and the sharpness an image has, due to their higher concentration

Question 14

Trichromatic Theory

Answer 14

There are three colors of photoreceptors (red, blue, and green ) which produce the rainbow of colors we see when activated in various proportions

Question 15

Opponent-Process Theory

Answer 15

There are four types of cones, (red, blue, green, and yellow) that go in pairs, [red with green, and blue with yellow] that are activated by different colors and when fatigued cause the opponent cone to be stimulated more shifting the color visualized

Question 16

Afterimage

Answer 16

visual sensation that persists briefly after stimulus ends

Question 17

Colorblindness

Answer 17

One kind or many kinds of cones that are damaged causing one to see in limited colors and grays

Question 18

Place Theory

Answer 18

Cell hairs closer to the oval window vibrate at higher frequencies than those farther away

Question 19

Volley Principle

Answer 19

Cell hairs alternate firing which adds up to a desired frequency

Question 20

Frequency Theory

Answer 20

BLAH BLAH

Question 21

Conduction Impairment

Answer 21

The sound waves aren’t sent from the eardrum to the cochlea

Question 22

Nerve Hearing Impairment

Answer 22

The signal isn’t sent down the nerves due to auditory pathway damage

Question 23

Five Tastes

Answer 23

Sweet, Sour, Bitter, Salty, Umami(Brothy)

Question 24

Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA)

Answer 24

The inability to feel pain

Question 25

Kinesthetic Sense

Answer 25

The location of body parts in relation to another

Question 26

Vestibular Sense

Answer 26

Otolith organs and semicircular canal that tell the movement of the body (example... the ears tell head movement)

Question 27

Size Constancy

Answer 27

A objects size remains the same no matter the distance away

Question 28

Somatic Pain

Answer 28

2 kinds of skin pain - The initial sharp intense pain - The longer lasting throbbing or aching pain

Question 29

Figure-Ground

Answer 29

The perceiving of objects as existing in the background

Question 30

Motion Sickness

Answer 30

Nauseous feeling arising from the difference between what the eyes see and what the ears are sensing

Question 32

Reversible Figures

Answer 32

The background and figure are interchangeable

Question 33

Proximity

Answer 33

When things are together they tend to be grouped in clumps

Question 34

Similarity

Answer 34

Things are perceived to be from the same group when they look alike/similar

Question 35

Closure

Answer 35

Tendency to finish object's shapes that are not complete

Question 36

Continuity

Answer 36

One tends to see a large image over the complex broken pieces composing it

Question 37

Contiguity

Answer 37

How one tends to perceive things close in time as being connected

Question 38

Shape Constancy

Answer 38

Objects are given a specific shape even if looked at in a weird angle

Question 39

Linear Perspective

Answer 39

Lines parallel appear to converge as they move into the distance

Question 40

Relative Size

Answer 40

Due to size consistency, the smaller an object is the farther away it is

Question 41

Overlap

Answer 41

Objects blocked by another are farther away

Question 42

Aerial Perspectivee

Answer 42

Far away objects are hazier because of dirt, dust, and pollutants

Question 43

Texture Gradient

Answer 43

A pattern farther away - the pattern is less likely to be seen

Question 44

Motion Paradox

Answer 44

Objects farther away look to move slower

Question 45

Convergence

Answer 45

The movement of the eyes when focusing on an object | - Converge (cross-eyed) when objects are close

Question 46

Binocular Disparity

Answer 46

The summation of what both eyes seem from their different perspectives

Question 47

Brightness Constancy

Answer 47

Objects will be perceived to have a specific brightness no matter the light change