Perception and sensation Flashcards

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what is part of the eye that is a gap in the retina or is known as your blind spot?

A

Optic disk

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2
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what is part of the eye that has all your rods and cones?

A

Retina

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3
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what are photoreceptors do?

A

they are sensory cell receptors that detect of light, perceived as site

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4
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what is mechanoreception?

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type of sensory receptor cells that can contribute to hearing or touch

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5
Q

what is part of your eye that is a muscle that constricts and releases the pupell?

A

Iris

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6
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what depth is Retinal disparity?

A

Binocular vison

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7
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What is Psychophysics?

A

study of body reactivity

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8
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What is sensation responsible for?

A

receptor responding

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9
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what is the psychology of when something flows, wave function?

A

Continuity

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10
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What is part of your eye that is a gap in your eye to let light waves in?

A

pupil

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what is part of the eye that sends information to your occipital lobe?

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Optic nerve

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12
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what is part of your eye that is a muscle that pulls on the lens to constrict or enlarge it?

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Ciliary body

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13
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this is part of your eye that is sensitive to light

A

rods

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14
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what relies on one eye, moving away it gets more narrow? an example would be a road.

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linear perspective

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15
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this is part of your eye that allows you to see color

A

Cones

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16
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what allows your brain to determine if something is close or really close

A

Convergence

17
Q

What is when something is close to you and another that is in the distance

A

Texture gradient

18
Q

what is Chemoreception?

A

2 types of sensory receptor cells that contribute to smell and taste

19
Q

What is the psychology of when you see columns and rows?

20
Q

what is part of your eye where light is being refracted?

21
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What is Perception responsible for?

A

Processing

22
Q

what are the impaired colors?

A

Blue, yellow. Red ,green. black and white.

23
Q

what how things are position is going to tell you hoe far or close something is?

A

interposition

24
Q

what is used to perceive depth between two near objects?

A

Rental disparity

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what is the law of seeing whole things not parts?
Law of pragnanz
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what is part of the eye that is at the point that you can see the clearest?
Fovea
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What is transduction responsible for?
convert stimulation or action potential
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what is a law when you can or not tell the difference between things?
Weber's law
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what depth is convergence?
Binocular vison
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what is a sensory receptor responsible for?
Selective transductors (light wave)
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what is the measure of a threshold that has minimal intensity?
Absolute threshold
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what is part of your eye that is the protective coding and that bends light?
Cornea
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what is the measure of a threshold that can miss information?
Absolute threshold
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what is the psychology of when your mind fills in gaps?
Closure
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what is the psychology of the brain taking everything in at once, grouping things?
similarity
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what involves visually separating an object from its surroundings?
Grouping