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| chemical that stimulates the release of substance P |
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| snail-shaped, fluid-filled structure that contains the receptors for hearing |
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| hearing loss that results when the bones connected to the eardrum fail to transmit sound waves properly to the cochlea |
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| skin senses, including pressure on the skin, warmth, cold, pain, vibration, movement across the skin, and stretch of the skin |
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| chemicals produced by the brain that have effects resembling those of opiates, such as inhibiting pain |
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| identification of pitch by the frequency of action potentials in neurons along the basilar membrane of the cochlea, synchronized with the frequency of sound waves |
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| proposal that pain messages must pass through a gate, probably in the spinal cord, that can block these messages |
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| sense of smell; the detection of chemicals in contact with the membranes inside the nose |
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| odorous chemical, released by an animal, that changes how other members of the species respond to that animal socially |
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| identification of pitch by determining which auditory neurons, coming from which part of the basilar membrane, are most active |
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| neurotransmitter responsible for much of the transmission of pain information in the nervous system |
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| a condition in which a stimulus of one type, such as sound, also gives rise to another experience, such as color |
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| specialized sense that detects the direction of tilt and amount of acceleration of the head and the position of the head with respect to gravity |
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| identification of pitch by groups of hair cells responding to each vibration by producing an action potential |
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| accommodation of the lens |
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| adjustment of the thickness of the lens to focus on objects at different distances |
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| area where the optic nerve exits the retina |
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| rigid, transparent structure on the surface of the eyeball |
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| colored structure on the surface of the eye surrounding the pupil |
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| flexible structure that can vary its thickness to enable the eye to focus on objects at different distances |
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| theory that we perceive color in terms of a system of paired opposites: red versus green, yellow versus blue, and white versus black |
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| interpretation of sensory information |
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| specialized cell that converts environmental energies into signals for the nervous system |
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| concept that color perception results from the cerebral cortex's comparison of various retinal patterns |
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| theory that color vision depends on the relative rate of response of three types of cones |
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| converting a short-term memory into a long-term memory |
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| method of testing memory by asking someone to remember a certain item after being given a hint |
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| information processing model |
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| view that information is processed, coded, and stored in various ways in human memory as it is in a computer |
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| temporarily increased probability of using a word as a result of recently reading or hearing it |
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| familiar or typical example of a category |
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