sensation and perception pt 1

Question 1

Sensation

Answer 1

Touch, taste, vision hearing and smell

Question 2

Perception

Answer 2

How your brain makes sense of your senses

Question 3

selective attention

Answer 3

Paying attention to a certain thing, and tuning everything else out
EX. Basketball and the gorilla video.

Question 4

Change blindness

Answer 4

Blind to change because of selective attention

Question 5

perceptual set

Answer 5

A set of mental tendencies and assumptions that greatly affects what we perceive

Question 6

extrasensory perception (ESP)

Answer 6

The claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input
ex. Telepathy.

Question 7

Parapsychology

Answer 7

Study of paranormal phenomenon

Question 8

wave length

Answer 8

The distance from one wave peak to the next

Question 9

Hue

Answer 9

The color we see

Question 10

Intensity

Answer 10

amount of energy and light waves
EX. More intensity would be something that’s brighter.

Question 11

Cornea

Answer 11

Where light enters the eye, also protects and bends light

Question 12

pupil

Answer 12

Small adjustable opening

Question 13

Iris

Answer 13

Surrounds and controls the size of the pupil in response to light intensity, or inner emotions

Question 14

Lens

Answer 14

Focuses light rays onto an image on the retina

Question 15

Retina

Answer 15

Multi layered tissue on the ice sensitive inner surface
– Send image to optic nerve

Question 16

accommodation

Answer 16

Lens changing shape

Question 17

rods

Answer 17

Retinal receptors that detect black, white and gray
– 20x more than cones

Question 18

Cones

Answer 18

Retinal receptors in the center of the retina use for well lit conditions

Question 19

optic nerve

Answer 19

Carries neural impulses from eye to brain

Question 20

Blindspot

Answer 20

The point when an optic nerve leaves the eye to the brain

Question 21

Fovea

Answer 21

The middle part of the retina (point of central focus)

Question 22

highest frequency, color

Answer 22

Red

Question 23

lowest frequency color

Answer 23

Violet

Question 24

Who made the tri-chromatic theory?

Answer 24

Young

Question 25

tri-chomstic theory

Answer 25

Or I received three types of colors, red, blue, green

Question 26

Feature detectors

Answer 26

Neurons that the text certain types of stimuli like movement shape, and angles

Question 27

Bipolar cells

Answer 27

One of the main retinal interneurons that creates the main pathway to ganglion cells

Question 28

Ganglion cells

Answer 28

Transport visual stimuli to the brain

Question 29

Opponent process theory

Answer 29

Ganglion cells will turn on and off when they get tired and colors rock will appear to be the opposite color

Question 30

Transduction

Answer 30

The change of the stimulus energy into neural impulses

Question 31

Photo transduction

Answer 31

Light energy into neural impulses

Question 32

wave length has to do with

Answer 32

Color and hugh

Question 33

intensity Hass to do with what and is controlled by what

Answer 33

How to do with brightness and is controlled by the amplitude of light waves

Question 34

Where does the optic nerve go first

Answer 34

Thalamus

Question 35

Feature detection

Answer 35

Processing different things in different parts of the brain

Question 36

Color consistency

Answer 36

context of what’s around something changes how we see the color EX. Apples pic

Question 37

Perceptual set

Answer 37

predisposed to see you one thing rather than another EX. Young versus old lady.

Question 38

What features do we look at the most on a person?

Answer 38

Eyes and mouth

Question 39

Visual capture

Answer 39

vision can influence other senses

Question 40

McGurk effect

Answer 40

What you hear changes based on what you see EX. Bah/fah mouth.

Question 41

gestalt grouping rules

Answer 41

proximity similarity, continuity, connectedness, and closure can affect perceptual consistency

Question 42

Retinal disparity

Answer 42

when right and left vision cross EX. Singer sausage.

Question 43

Convergence

Answer 43

need two eyes to tell how far something is by using angles (binocular cue)

Question 44

Monocular cue

Answer 44

need one eye to process something

Question 45

Relative size

Answer 45

Bigger equals closer

Question 46

Interposition

Answer 46

objects that block off other objects are closer EX. Weird horse painting.

Question 47

Relative clarity

Answer 47

Foggy things look farther away

Question 48

Texture gradients

Answer 48

More texture = closer

Question 49

Relative motion

Answer 49

stuff closer that you pass goes the opposite way, but big stuff stays with you EX. Driving past something big vs something small.

Question 50

Relative height

Answer 50

Higher up = farther away

Question 51

linear perspective/convergence

Answer 51

Angles of lines, make it seem like there is more depth EX. Hallway drawing.

Question 52

light/shadow

Answer 52

lighter = closer Darker = farther

Question 53

Motion perception

Answer 53

Moving closer things get bigger

Question 54

phi phenomenon

Answer 54

light flash out of speed, makes it look like there’s motion EX. Signs with rotating lights.

Question 55

size consistency

Answer 55

stable, size perception, a midchanging size of the stimuli Yes. Different size cars.

Question 56

size distance, relationship

Answer 56

If something seems farther away, it may seem bigger than the same size object that looks like it’s closer EX. Monster running