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| taste, smell, hearing, vision, and touch |
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| the stimulation of sensory receptors and the sending of the information to the CNS |
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| the process through which we interpret sensory stimulation- it reflects learning, expectations, and attitudes |
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| the weakest amount of stimulus that can be sensed. It varies some from person-to-person |
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| the minimum amount of difference that can be detected between two stimuli |
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| the process by which we become more sensitive to weak stimuli and less sensitive to unchanging stimuli. For ie, the eyes adjusting in a dark theatre- living in a city and not paying attention to all the traffic noise |
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| gives you information onesize, shape, location, texture, color, and distance |
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| which is the opening that regulates the amount of light allowed into the eye. They look like solid black dots, but are actually holes |
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| One light goes through the pupil, it hits it which focuses light and changes its thickness to adjust the focus. |
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| The image is focused onto it which contains two types of receptor cells |
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| which are sensitive to light |
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| which are sensitive to color |
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| neurons that gather the information to be sent to the brain |
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| Vision impulses travel to the brain by the... |
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| when a person’s cones do not function properly. Most do see some color- few are totally color blind. 8% of men and less than 1% of women- heredity causes a defect in the cones and women tend to be carriers |
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| this is a color’s complementary color, its opposite |
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| The combination of two images into one |
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| your eyes are in 2 different places...this helps you to see 3D |
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| sound is made by vibrations in the air |
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| How high or low a sound is...sound waves are determined by it |
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| Signals are sent through this to the brain |
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| Loudness is measured by this... |
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| a thin membrane that vibrates when sound hits it and transmits the sound to 3 small bones: hammer, anvil, & stirrup. They vibrate and transmit sound to the inner ear |
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| a tube that moves in response to the fluid vibration inside it and the impulses are sent through the auditory nerve |
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| Damage to the inner ear and auditory nerve, usually caused by very loud, extended noise &/or sickness |
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| Liquid in 3 semicircular canals in the inner ear. When the liquid moves around it tells you are off balance |
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| he molecules in the air must hit the inner membrane in the nose & then information is sent via this to the brain |
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| Smells are comprised of 6 qualities |
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| Flowery, fruity, spicy, resinous, burnt, and putrid |
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| sour, salty, bitter, and sweet |
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| feeling pain away from its actual source |
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| being able to feel pain or other sensations from amputated area |
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| the sense of movement and body position. Without this you would always have to watch everything you’re doing |
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| Tendency to see a complete or whole figure even when there are gaps |
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| The ability to see the difference between a figure and a background |
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| When you see things moving together you perceive them as belonging together |
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| for objects to seem to move forward or backward depending on how far away they are from the viewer |
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| perceptions that are misrepresentations of reality |
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| size, color, brightness, and shape |
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| Extrasensory perception (ESP) |
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| receiving information about the world through channels other than the normal senses |
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