Exam Vocabs

Question 1

Sensation

Answer 1

The stimulation of sensory receptors

Question 2

Perception

Answer 2

The pyscological processes in which we interpret sensory information

Question 3

Absolute threshold

Answer 3

The weakest amount of stimulus that can be sensed

Question 4

Difference threshold

Answer 4

The minimum amount of difference that can be distinguished between 2 stimuli

Question 6

Sensory adaptation

Answer 6

Process by which becoming more sensitive to weak stimuli and less sensitive to unwinding stimuli

Question 7

Pupil

Answer 7

Opening in eye, shape changes based on high emotions

Question 8

Lens

Answer 8

Adjusts to the distance of an object by changing its thickness

Question 9

Retina

Answer 9

Takes focus and image acts like the film of a camera

Question 10

Photoreceptors

Answer 10

Neurons in the retina

Question 11

Visual acuity

Answer 11

The ability to see details in normal light

Question 12

After image

Answer 12

Visual sensation that occurs after the original image

Question 13

Complimentary color

Answer 13

A colors opposite color on the color wheel

Question 14

Color blindness

Answer 14

The decreased ability to see color or differences in colorbody

Question 15

Auditory nerve

Answer 15

Bundle of nerves carrying sound from the cochlea to the brain

Question 16

Conductive blindness

Answer 16

Deafness caused by damage to middle ear

Question 17

Sensorineural deafness

Answer 17

Deafness caused by damage to inner or auditory ear

Question 18

Olfactory nerve

Answer 18

Transmits odors to limbric system or brain

Question 19

Gate theory

Answer 19

Only a small amount of info can be processed by the nervous system at a time

Question 20

Vestibular sense

Answer 20

Makes you vomiting if poison in ur systen

Question 21

Kinethesis senses

Answer 21

Sense that tells us about the position and motion of their body

Question 22

Proximity

Answer 22

We group items together just cause of their closeness

Question 23

Similarly

Answer 23

Group items together cause of their closeness

Question 24

Continuity

Answer 24

We want to see smooth continuous patterns

Question 25

Common fate

Answer 25

We thunk things that move together belong together

Question 26

Closure

Answer 26

We perceive an image even when our sense are missing information

Question 27

Figure ground perception

Answer 27

The perception of figures against a backrounf

Question 28

Stroboscopic motion

Answer 28

The perception of movement from rapid progression of images

Question 29

2 ways to see depth proception

Answer 29

Monocular curs Binocular cues

Question 30

Perspective

Answer 30

Causes parallel lines to appear to meet at some point in distance

Question 31

Clearness

Answer 31

Nearby objects tend to appear more detailed while further objects lezz

Question 32

Overlapping

Answer 32

Shows depth when one object partially covers another

Question 33

Shadow

Answer 33

Shows three dimensional shape through a light source

Question 34

Gradient texture

Answer 34

States there is a gradual change in appearance of objects from coarse to fine

Question 35

Motion parallax

Answer 35

States that objects that are further away appear to move much more slowly

Question 36

Binocular cues

Answer 36

Visual infro taken by 2 eyes that enable a sense of depth perception

Question 37

Perceptual constancies

Answer 37

Perceiving objects as unchanging even as light retinal images change

Question 38

Color constancy

Answer 38

Tendency to perceive objects as keeping there odor even through different lights

Question 39

Size constancy

Answer 39

Seeing objects as having a constant size even while pur distance from them varies

Question 40

Shape constancy

Answer 40

Perceiving objects have only one shape

Question 41

Brightness constancy

Answer 41

The tendency to see an object equally bright even if the intensity of light changes around jt

Question 42

Muller lyer illusion

Answer 42

2 lines the same length appear to be different lenghts