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| vision, ears, taste, touch, smell |
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| receptors for sense of bodily movement |
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| the detection of physical energy emitted or reflected by physical objects |
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| specialized cells who's total purpose is to convert physical energy from the environment in to electrical energy in our brain |
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| specialized cells who's total purpose is to convert physical energy from the environment in to electrical energy in our brain |
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| sense receptors transmit to |
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| sensory neurons in the peripheral nervous system |
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| sense receptors transmit to |
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| sensory neurons in the peripheral nervous system |
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| The principle that different sensory modalities exist because signals received by the sense organs stimulate different nerve pathways leading to different areas of the brain |
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| doctrine of specific nerve energies |
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| the doctrine of specific nerve energies |
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| the process by which the brain organizes and interprets sensory information |
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| doctrine of specific energies implies |
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| we see with the brian, not our eyes |
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| a rare condition in which stimulation of one sense also evokes a sensation in another |
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| the smallest quantity of physical energy that can be reliably detected by and observer |
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| the smallest difference in stimulation that can be reliably detected by an observer when two stimuli are compared ; also called just noticeable difference |
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| these rely on the fact that sensory receptors and neurons fire, or are firing in a pattern |
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| information about which cells are firing, how many cells are firing, pattern they fire is an example of |
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| when a stimulus is unchanging or repetitious, sensations often fades or disappears. Receptors or nerve cells higher up in the sensory system get tired and fire less frequently. The resulting decline in sensory responsiveness is called |
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| when a stimulus is unchanging or repetitious, sensations often fades or disappears. Receptors or nerve cells higher up in the sensory system get tired and fire less frequently. The resulting decline in sensory responsiveness is called |
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| the absence of normal levels of sensory stimulation |
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| the focusing of attention on selected aspects of the environment and the blocking out of others |
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| failure to consciously perceive something you are looking at because you are not attending to it |
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| the dimension of visual experience specified by color names and related to the wavelength of light |
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| lightness or luminance, the dimension of visual experience related to the amount of light emitted from or reflected by an object |
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| lightness or luminance, the dimension of visual experience related to the amount of light emitted from or reflected by an object |
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| vividness or purity of color, the dimension of visual experience related to the complexity of light waves |
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| neural tissue lining the back of the eyeballs interior , which contains receptors for vision |
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| visual receptors that respond to dim light |
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| visual receptors that respond to dim light |
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| visual receptors involved in color vision |
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| a process by which visual receptors become maximally sensitive to dim light |
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| Neurons in the retina of the eye, which gather information from receptor cells by way of intermediate bipolar cells, their axons make up the optic nerve |
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| cells in the visual cortex that are sensitive to specific features of the environment - |
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| a theory of color perception that proposes three mechanism in the visual system, each sensitive to a certain range of wave lenghts, their interaction is assumed to produce all the different experiences of hue |
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| a theory of color perception that assumes that the visual system treats pairs of colors as opposing or antagonistic - |
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| the first people to study how people organize the world into visually meaningful units and patterns |
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| principles that describe the brains organization of sensory information into meaningful units and patterns |
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| visual cues to depth or distance requiring two eyes |
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| the turning inward of the eyes when they focus on objects that are near by |
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| the slight difference in lateral separation between two objects as seen by the left eye and the right eye |
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| visual cues to depth or distance that can be used by one eye alone |
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| the accurate perception of objects as stable or unchanged despite changes in the sensory patterns they produce |
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| the dimension of auditory experience related to the intensity of a pressure wave |
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| the dimension of auditory experience related to the frequency of a pressure wave; it is related to the height or depth of a tone |
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| the distinguishing quality of a sound; the dimension of auditory experience related to the complexity of the pressure wave |
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| a structure in the cochela containing hair cells that serve as the receptors for hearing |
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| organ of corti (CORE-tee) |
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| a snail shaped fluid filled organ in the inner ear, containing the organ of corti where the receptors for hearing are located |
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| knoblike elevations on the tongue, containing the taste buds - |
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| nests of taste receptors cells |
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| the theory that the experience of pain depends in part on whether pain impulses get past a neurological "gate" in the spinal cord and thus reaching the brain |
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| the experience of pain in a missing limb or other body part |
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| the sense of body position and movement of body part |
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| - kinestheses (KIN-es-THEE-sis) |
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| sense organs in the inner ear which contribute to equilibrium by responding to totation of the head |
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| a habitual way of perceiving, based on expectation |
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| the study of purported psychic phenomena such as esp and mental telepathy |
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