Sensation & Perception

Question 1

The five senses

Answer 1

sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch

Question 2

Sensation

Answer 2

body takes info using senses

Question 3

Perception

Answer 3

brain understands of what senses feel

Question 4

Absolute threshold

Answer 4

smallest amount of something

Question 5

Adaptation

Answer 5

the smallest changes

Question 6

Light

Answer 6

a type of energy you can see

Question 7

The eye & its parts

Answer 7

cornea, pupil, Iris, Lens, Retina, Rods, Cones, Optic nerve, blind spot

Question 8

Rods

Answer 8

cells in the retina that helps you see the dark

Question 9

cones

Answer 9

help you see colors and details

Question 10

Information Processing of the retina

Answer 10

brain takes info from senses (understand it, store it, use it later)

Question 11

Feature detection

Answer 11

cell that recognizes shapes, lines, movements, and patterns.

Question 12

color

Answer 12

what we see when light reflect objects

Question 13

color blindness

Answer 13

can’t see certain colors (red & green)

Question 14

Trichromatic Theory of color

Answer 14

see color because of 3 kind of cones (red, green and blue)

Question 15

Opponent processing theory

Answer 15

see colors in pair (red/green, blue/yellow, and black/white)

Question 16

After images

Answer 16

seeing color or shapes after looking away.

Question 17

sound

Answer 17

vibrations that travel through the air.

Question 18

The ear & its parts

Answer 18

outer ear, eardrum, middle ear, cochlea, auditory nerve.

Question 19

Semicircular canals

Answer 19

inner ear that helps with balance

Question 20

Primary taste

Answer 20

sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami (savory/meaty)

Question 21

pain

Answer 21

a warning signal from our body that something is wrong or could hurt us.

Question 22

smell

Answer 22

nose detects chemicals in the air and send it to our brain.

Question 23

Olfactory system

Answer 23

helps you smell (includes nose and brain parts)

Question 24

Olfactory Cilia

Answer 24

tiny hairs like cells in nose that pick up smells.

Question 25

what two senses work with each other, and which one enhances the other?

Answer 25

Smell and taste, smell enhances taste. Without smell food has less flavor.

Question 26

Gestalt laws of Organization

Answer 26

rules your brain uses to group things together.

Question 27

Depth Perception

Answer 27

tell how far od how close something is.

Question 28

Feature analysis

Answer 28

brain looks at small details to figure out what it is.

Question 29

Bottom-up processing

Answer 29

starts with what your senses pick up and then figure it out.

Question 30

Top-down processing

Answer 30

uses what you already know to understand what you are sensing.

Question 31

binocular disparity

Answer 31

eyes see slightly different images.

Question 32

monocular disparity

Answer 32

depth info you can get with one eye.