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Psych, master set test II
vanderbilt psych 101
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Psychology
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10/19/2005

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visual rabbit
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sound dominates vision, which is opposite from normal,
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visual range of light
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400-700 nm

red-higher
violet-lower
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iris, cornea, retina, virteous humor, lens, pupil
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colored, tough first focussing layer, , where the receptors are, the fuid inside, pupil-hole where light passes
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fovea
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only cones in humans, densest area of receptors
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describe accomodation
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relaxation of cilliary muscles= lens flattens, allows long distance vision

contraction of cillary muscles= lens buches, allows short focusing
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presbyopia
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requires reading glasses, lens gets less flexible and therefore you cant focus on nearby objects
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myopia
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elongated eyeball- harder to see far away. nearsighted...
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hyperopia
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farsighted, flattened eyball
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glaucoma
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tunnel vision, pressure in eyeball,d amage to optic neve
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cataract
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lens becomes cloudy
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percentage of cones in humans
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5-10
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rod vision v.s. cone vision
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nightime b&w v.s. detailed color
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direction of photo reception
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back of retina forward
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reason for difference between detail v.s. senstivity in rods v.s. cones
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few cones converge to a few bipolar cells

many many rods converget to one, so less info about location and shape.
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steps in photo reception
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light-->electro chemical reception in receptor--->bipolar--->ganglion--> optic nerve
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opitic nerve path
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crosses parts of brain at optic chiasm, thalmus (lateral genticulate- then occiptal lobe
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striate cortex
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appearance of optic lobe
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binocular rivalry
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the alternation between seeing the patern in the left retina and the patetern in the right retina
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Trichromatic theory (aka)
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mixing of three receptors, red-long green-medium blue-short creates full spectrum, and they are the only receptors

AKA young-helmholtz theory
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opponet-process theory of color
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relies on pairing of red v green blue v yellow whtie v black, receptors that are excited by one pair, and inhibited by the other. when they get fatigued, they produce the other (after image)
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retinex theory
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we percieve color throuth comparing differen tpatterns of light, and synthesizes a perception for each area. same oolor can be perceived differnetly because of surrouding impulse
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frequency in sound terms
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hz, pitch, cycles per second
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amplitude in sound terms
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dB, loudness
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adult human's hearing range
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15-20,000 hz
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praying mantis
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25-45 khz
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order of ear bones and name
Definition
hammer anvil stirrup

malus, incus, stapes
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where sound hair cells are, quanity of rows
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basilar membraine 4
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frequency principle
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a action potential per wave -100 hz
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volley
Definition
1000-4000

summation of response from four rows
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place principle
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where the tone vibrates is aidentified as a certain frequency
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cochlea
Definition
snail containing basilar membrane
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mechanisms of localization
Definition
echoes for absolute, and pitch, and whic hear hears first
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vestibular sense, major organs (2)
Definition
semicicrular canals, otolith organs, with calcium carbonate

detects acceleration, tilt of head, head movmeent with respect to eyemovment
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receptors of somosensory (4)
Definition
stetch, pain, skin displacement, bunch of em
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gate theory of pain
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spinal cord contains areas where, other nervous system imputs from other parts can inhibit or enhance pain
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two pain transmitters
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substance p, and glutatmate
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natural painrelever
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endorphins
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capsaicin
Definition
chemical releases substance p somehow relieves pain
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phantom limb explanation
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widdowed somasensory cortex makes new connections
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vomeronasal organ
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pheromones, menstrual cycle synchrony may be a consequence
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number of and names of type of taste buds
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sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami
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"major" function of taste
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to regulate eating
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absolute sensory threshold
Definition
intensity of stimulus that a given individual can detect 50% of the time
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signal detection theory
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study of reporting stimulus in minmal situations, changes based on motivation
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subliminal perception
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stimulus can effect our behavior even when its not percieved conciously, small confirmation in studies, nothing huge
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brightness contrast
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is the increase or decrease in an opbjects brightness becaus eof objects around it
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feature detectors
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specialized neurons that respond to specific features such as line ansd angles, applies to motion as well
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gestalt psychology
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the study of perception as the recogonitioon of paterns, reversible figures demonstrate that we put tgoether complex paterns of imput
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proximity
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grouping by of close images
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similarity
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the grouping of similar objects
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continuation
Definition
a filling in of the gaps
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closure
Definition
filling in the gaps
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common fate
Definition
we assume its one object if it moves as one
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good figure
Definition
assumption that figures are normal regular, similar to the expectations slide
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similarity between hearing and sight perception 2
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reversible images, closure/continuation
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stroboscopic moevement
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movies videos, lots of similar pictures
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induced movmeent
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any apparent movment not real
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convergence
retinal disparity

these are e.g. of ?
Definition
cordinated turning in of eyees to see close objects

the different images as seen as the left and right retinas

binolcular cues
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relative size
accomodation
elevation
superposition
linear perspective
areal prospective
shadows
texture gradients
Definition
high horizon line
things in front block
convergence on a point of lines, slanting in
areal- blueing of distance, diffraction by dust
thigns close have more detail
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motion parralax
Definition
depth while moving, things close= blury
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