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| stimulation of sense organs |
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| Specific type of sensory input is the minimum amount of stimulation that an organism can detect |
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| study of how physical stimuli are translated into a psychological experience |
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| detectable input from environment that do and do not have a detectable effect |
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| dividing point between energy levels that do and do not have a detectable effect |
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| Just Noticable Difference |
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| Smallest difference in the amount of stimulation that a specific sense can detect |
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| States that the size of a just noticeable difference is proportional to the number of JNDs that the stimulus causing the experience is above absolute threshold |
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| states that the size of a just noticeable difference is a constant proportion of the size of the initial stimulus |
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| magnitude estimation involved asiding subject to assign numbers to stimuli |
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| the detection of stimuli involved decision process as well as sensory process- influenced by factors besides stimulus intensity |
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| Registration of sensory input without conscious awareness |
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| gradual decline in sensitivity to prolonged stimulation |
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| In the eye- recieves light- houses tissue |
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| transparent eye structure that focuses the light rays falling on the retina |
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| When curvature of lens adjusts to alter visual focus |
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| close objects are seen clearly but distant objects are blurred |
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| close objects are seen clearly but distant objects are blurred |
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| Opening in the center of the iris that helps regulate amount of light passing to rear chamber of eye |
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| Neaural tissue lining the inside back surface of the eye; absorbs light and sens info to brain |
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| Hole in the retina where optic nerve fibers exist in eye |
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| specialized visual receptors (daylight and color vision) |
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| Tiny spot in center of the retina that contains only cones; visual acuity is greatest at this spot |
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| Specialized visual receptors (night and peripheral) |
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| Process in which the eyes become more sensitive to light in low illumination |
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| Process whereby the eyes became less sensitive to light in high illumation |
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| Receptive field of visual cell |
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| Retina area that, when stimulated, affects the firing of that cell |
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| point at which optic nerves from the inside half of each eye cross over and then project to the opposite half of the brain |
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| Involves stimultaneously extracting different kinds of specific features of more complex stimuli |
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| Neurons that respond selectively to very specific features of moved complex stimuli |
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| inability to recognize objects |
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| inability to recognize familiar faces |
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| removing wavelengths or light- leaving less light than was originally |
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| super imposing lights, putting more light in the mixture than exists in any one light by itself |
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| Trichromatic theory of color vision |
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| the human eye has three types of receptors with different sensitivities to different light wavelengths |
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| Encompasses a variety of deficiencies in the ability to distinguish among color |
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| pains of colors that produce grey tones when mixed together |
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| visual image that persists after a stimulus is removed |
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| theory of color vision- color vision depends on receptors that make an antagonistic response to three pairs of colors |
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| drawing that is compatible with two interpretations that can shift back and forth |
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| readiness to percieve a stimulus in a particular way |
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| process of detecting specific elements in visual input and assembling them into a more complex form |
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| process of detecting specific elements in visual input and assembling them into a more complex form |
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| progression from individual elements to the whole |
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| progression grom the whole to the elements |
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| the illusion of movement created by presenting visual stimuli in rapid succession |
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| stimulus that lie in the distance |
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| stimuli that lie in the distance |
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| inference about which distall stimuli could be responsible for the proximal stimuli sense |
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| interpretation of visual dues that indicate how near or few away objects are |
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| cues about distance based on the differing views of two eyes |
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| the fact that objects within 25ft project images slightly altered |
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| sensing the eyes converging towards each other as they focus on closer objects |
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| cues about distance based on the image in either eye alone |
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| involves images of objects at different distances moving across the retina at different rates |
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| clues about distance that can be given in a flat picture |
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| tendency to experience a perception in the face of continually changing sensory input |
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| involves an apparently inexplicable discrepancy between the appearance of a visual stimulus and its physical reality |
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| objects that can be represented in two-dimensional pictures but cannot exist in three dimensional space |
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| fluid-filled coiled tunnel that contains the receptors for hearing |
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| perception of pitch corresponds to the vibration of different portions , or places, along the basilar membrane |
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| which runs the length of the spiraled cochlea, holds the auditory receptors |
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| holds that perception of pitch corresponds to the rate or frequency at which the entire basilar membrane vibrates |
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| locating the source of a sound in space |
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| cue sensory system for taste |
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| the sensory system for smell |
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| incoming pain sensations must pass through a "gate" in the spinal cord that can be close, thus blocking ascending pain signals |
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| which responds to gravity and keeps you informed of your body's location in space |
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