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| What occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor. |
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| The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences. |
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| The study of the relationships between sensory experiences and the physical stimuli that cause them. |
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| The weakest amount of stimulus that a person can detect half the time. |
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| The smallest change in a physical stimulus that can be detected between two stimulus. |
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| The principle that the larger or stronger a stimulus , the larger the change required for an observer to notice a difference. |
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| The observable fact the the senses can change to detect or ignore certain stimulus. |
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| The study of people's tendencies to make correct judgements in detecting the presence of stimuli. |
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| Carries impulses from the rod and cone cells to the brain. |
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| inability to discern between certain colors. |
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| The process of combining the images from each eye into a single image. |
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| The different stimulus each eye receives. |
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| The nerve that carries impulse from the inner ear to the brain. |
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| Bony tube with hairs and fluid that acts as the receptor for audio impulses. |
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| Hardening of the tube housing audio receptors causes diminished hearing, correctable with a hearing aid. |
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| Loss of hearing due to flaws in Cochlea, make only hear with an artificial Cochlea transplant. |
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| One of the 7 senses, associated with balance. |
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| Sends stimulus from the receptors in the nose to the brain. |
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| Pressure, warmth, cold, pain |
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| Stimulus received by receptors in the skin. |
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| One of the 7 senses, associated with movement and knowledge of body position. |
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| Gate control theory of pain |
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| The theory that we can lessen the feeling of pain by sending the brain other signals to compete with the pain signals. |
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| Theory that the brain looks at the whole of the impulses using concepts such as closure, simplicity, continuity, similarity, and proximity. |
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| Ability to separate a figure from background. |
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| Ability to complete interrupted stimuli with expected information to perceive complete message. |
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| Brief stimuli that are not part of the perceived message, are below absolute threshold but my still be retained by the brain. |
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| Ability to perceive that an object remains the same despite changes in angle of view, lighting, or distance. |
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| Perceptions that misrepresent physical stimuli. |
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| Clairvoyance, Telepathy, psychokinesis, precognition. |
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| ESP skill of perceiving hidden objects |
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| ESP skill of reading someone else's mind. |
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| ESP skill of moving objects with your mind. |
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| ESP skill of foretelling events. |
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