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| Color seen is based off different wave lengths, short, medium, and long |
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| Detect short wave lengths |
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| Detect medium wave lengths |
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| Three main colors seen, two or all are activated at the same time, leaving after images |
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| Lower sound is associated with... |
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| Loud sound is associated with... |
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| The mental process of organizing the sensations into meaningful patterns |
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| A meaningful mental model of external events |
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| Organizing perceptions by beginning with low-level features |
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| Applying higher-level knowledge to rapidly organize sensory information into a meaningful perception |
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| Giving priority to a particular incoming sensory message |
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| Allotting mental space or effort to various tasks or parts of a task |
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| Failure ro perceive a stimulus that is in plain view, but not the focus of attention |
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| A decrease in perceptual response to a repeated stimulus |
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| Bodily changes that prepare an organism to receive information from a particular stimulus |
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| Figure-ground organization |
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| Part of a stimulus appears to stand out as an object or figure against a less prominent background |
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| All other tings being equal, stimuli that are near each other tend to be constructed, or grouped, together |
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| Stimuli that are similar in size, shape, color, or form tend to be grouped together |
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| Tendency to complete a figure so that it has a consistent overall form. |
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| Voluntarily focusing on a specific sensory input |
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| Where pain is concerned, the meaning is given to a stimulus |
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| Using mild pain to block more intense or long lasting pain |
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| A decrease in sensory response to an unchanging stimulus |
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| Voluntarily focusing on a specific sensory input |
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| Alteration of sensory messages in the spinal cord |
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| Proposes that pain messages pass through neural "gates" in the spinal cord |
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| a natural, painkilling brain chemical similar to morphine |
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| Pain based on small nerve fibers; remind the brain that the body has been injured |
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| Touch experienced when the body is in motion; a combination of sensations from skin receptors, muscles, and joints |
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| Explains motion sickness as the result of a mismatch between information from vision, the vestibular system, and kines-thesis |
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| Sensations produced by the skin, muscles, joins, viscera, and organs of balance |
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| The senses of touch, pressure, pain, heat, and cold |
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| The senses of balance, position in space, and acceleration |
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| Sensory organs for touch, pressure, pain, cold, and warmth |
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| Pain originating in the internal organs |
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| Pain that is felt in one part of the body but come from another |
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| Pain from the skin, muscles, joins, and tendons |
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| Pain based on large nerve fivers; warns that bodily damage may be occuring |
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| Loss or impairment of the sense of smell |
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| Lock and key theory of olfaction |
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| Holds that odors are related to the shapes of chemical molecules |
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| An airborne chemical signal |
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| The receptor organ for taste |
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| Theory that higher and lowe tones excite specific areas of the cochlea |
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| Poor transfer of sounds from the eardrum to the inner ear |
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| Sensorineural hearing loss |
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| Loss of hearing caused by damage to the inner ear hair cells or auditory nerve |
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| Noise-induced hearing loss |
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| Damage caused by exposing the hair cells to excessively loud sounds |
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| Receptor cells within the cochlea that transduce vibrations into nerve impulses |
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| Center part of the cochlea, containing hair cells, canals, and membranes |
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| Holds that tones up to 4,000 hertz are converted to nerve impulses that match the frequency of each tone |
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| Increased retinal sensitivity to light |
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| Blindness under conditions of low illumination |
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| Simultaneous color contrast |
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| Changes in perceived hue that occur when a colored stimulus is displayed on backgrounds of various colors |
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| Theory of color vision based on three coding systems, red or green, yellow or blue, black or white |
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| Study of the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations they evoke in a human observer |
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| Devices that convert on kind of energy into another |
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| The minimum amount of physical energy necessary to produce a sensation |
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| Perception of a stimulus below the threshold of conscious recognition |
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| A change in stimulus intensity that is detectable to an observer |
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| Just noticeable difference (JND) |
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| Any noticeable difference in a stimulus |
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| The just noticeable difference is a constant proportion of the original stimulus intensity |
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| Separation of sensory information into important elements |
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| Basic elements of a stimulus, such as lines, shapes, edges, or colors |
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| Codes used by the sense organs to transmit information to the brain |
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| A sensory impression; also, the process of detecting physical energies with the sensory organs |
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| The mental process of organizing sensations into meaningful patterns |
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| The narrow spread of the electromagnetic spectrum to which the eyes are sensitive |
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| The light-sensitive layer of cells at the back of the eye |
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| Changes in the shape of the lens of the eye |
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| Difficulty focusing nearby objects (far sight) |
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| Difficulty focusing distant objects (near sight) |
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| Defects in the cornea, lens, or eye that cause some areas of vision to be out of focus |
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| Farsightedness caused by aging |
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| Circular muscle that controls the amount of light entering the eye |
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| The opening at the front of the eye through which light passes |
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| Visual receptors for colors and daylight visual acuity |
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| Visual receptors for dim light that produce only black and white sensations |
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| An area of the retina lacking visual receptors |
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| The sharpness of visual perception |
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| An area at the center of the retina containing only cones |
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| Vision at the edges of the visual field |
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| An initial guess regarding how-to organize a stimulus pattern |
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| The perceived size of an object remains constant, despite changes in its retinal image |
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| The perceived shape of an object is unaffected by changes in its retinal image |
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| The apparent brightness of objects remains the same as long as they are illuminated by the same amount of light |
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| The ability to see three-dimensional space and to accurately judge distances |
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| Perceptual features that impart information about distance and three-dimensional space |
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| Perceptual features that impart information about distance and three-dimensional space that require two eyes |
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| Perceptual features that impart information about distance and three-dimensional space that require just one eye |
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| Perception of space and depth caused chiefly by the fact that eyes receive different images |
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| Features found in paintings, drawings, and photographs that impart information about space, depth, and distance |
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| The apparent change in size that occurs as the moon moves from the horizon to overhead |
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| Apparent-distance hypothesis |
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| An explanation of the moon illusion stating that the horizon seems more distance than the night sky |
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| Changes in how we construct sensory information into percepts that can be attributed to prior experience |
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| Well-established patters of perceptual organization and attention |
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| Important elements of a stimulus pattern, such as lines, shapes, edges, spots, and colors |
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| Information surrounding a stimulus |
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| A misleading or distorted perception |
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| An imaginary sensation, such as seeing, hearing, or smelling something that does not exist in the external world |
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| Obtaining additional information to check on the accuracy perceptions |
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| Illusion of movement in which an object is shown in a rapidly changing series of postions |
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| Two equal-length lines tipped with inward or outward pointing Vs appear to be of different lengths |
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| The strict relationship between the distance an object lies from the eyes and the size of its image |
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| A readiness to perceive in a particular manner, induced by strong expectations |
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| The purported ability to perceive events in ways that cannot be explained by known capacities of the sensory organs |
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| The study of extra normal psychological events, such as extrasensory perception |
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| Events that seem to lie outside the realm of accepted scientific laws |
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| The purported ability to directly know another persons thoughts |
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| The purported ability to perceive events at a distance or through physical barriers |
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| The purported ability to accurately predict future events |
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| The purported ability to mentally alter or influence objects or events |
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| A deck of 25 cards bearing various symbols and sued in early para psychological research |
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| A statistically unusual outcome that could still occur by chance alone |
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| The simulation of ESP for the purpose of entertainment |
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| A reversal of habituation |
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