Sensation and Perception Flashcards

Eyes, ears, skin, etc.

Sources of energy, light and sound (automatic processes)

<p>The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Weakest amount of stimulus that a person can distinguish from no stimulus at all</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Highness or lowness of a sound</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Minimum difference in magnitude of two stimuli required to tell them apart</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The perceived difference in the intensity of light (2% or 1/60th)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Minimum difference in stimuli that a person can detect (2% or 1/50th)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>View that perception of sensory stimuli involves the interaction of physical, biological and psychological factors</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Visible light that triggers visual sensation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Color of light, determined by wavelength</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Transparent tissue forming the outer surface of the eyeball</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Muscular membrane whose dilation regulates the amount of light that enters the eye</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Black opening in the center of the iris through which light enters</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Adjusts/accommodates to the image by changing its thickness and focuses image on the retina</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cells that respond to light</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Neurons that conduct neural impulses from rods and cones to ganglion cells</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Neurons whose axons form the optic nerve</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nerve that transmits sensory information from the eye to the brain</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inner surface of the eye that consists of cells called photoreceptors</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rod-shaped photoreceptors that are sensitive only to the intensity of light and allow you to see in black and white</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cone-shaped photoreceptors that transmit sensations of color and provide color vision</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sharpness of vision (strongest in retina)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Condition characterized by brittleness of lens</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Process of adjusting to condition of lower lighting by increasing the sensitivity of rods and cones</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Descriptive colors of the spectrum that when combined produce white or nearly white light</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Green</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Yellow</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Orange</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mixture of lights</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mixture of pigments</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lingering visual impression made by a stimulus that has been removed</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Theory that color vision is made possible by three types of cones, some of which respond to red light, some to green and some to blue</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Theory that color vision is made possible by three types of cones, some of which respond to red or green light, some to blue or yellow and some to the intensity of light</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Person with normal color vision</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Person who is sensitive to black and white only (colorblind)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Person who is sensitive to black-white and either red-green or blue-yellow and hence partially colorblind</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tendency to perceive a broken figure as being complete or whole</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Process by which we organize or make sense of the sensory impressions caused by the light that strikes our eyes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Perception of the whole, has parts that organize into a whole which is different from the sum of the parts</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Figure-ground perception that creates reversible figures and contours</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nearness, perceptual tendency to group together objects that are near one another</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Perceptual tendency to group together objects that are similar in appearance</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tendency to perceive a series of points or lines as having unity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tendency to perceive elements that move together as belonging together</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The usage of knowledge to organize parts of a pattern</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Organization of parts of a pattern to recognize</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sensations that give rise to misperceptions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Illusion in perception of motion which uses presented stationary images in rapid succession</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cues that can be perceived by only one eye</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cue for depth based on the convergence of parallel lines as they recede into the distance</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>(Monocular) Cue based on perception that closer objects appear to have rough surfaces</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cue for depth based on perception that nearby objects move more rapidly than our own motion</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Deals with people misperceiving how big something is</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Measures sound</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Formed laws of organization on perception</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Points to instances where our perception remains the same even if stimulus has changed</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Binocular cue based on inward movement and focus of eyes as an object draws nearer</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When our lens focuses the incoming light when hitting our retina</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Involves simultaneous perception by both eyes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inner ear, contains basilar membrane and organ of Corti</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lies coiled inside cochlea</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Receptor for hearing that lies on basilar membrane</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Axon bundle that transmits neural impulses from organ of Corti to brain</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sourness, saltiness, sweetness, bitterness, umami (richness)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Measures visual acuity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Proves that one image is different to one eye compared to the other when distance is involved</p> Signup and view all the answers