VocabTheories & Laws

AnatomicalStructures

Other Senses

PerceptualOrganization

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What is an analysis that begins with the sensory

receptors and works up to the brain’s integration and

sensory information?

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What is bottom-up processing.

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What is the minimum stimulation required to detect a particular

stimulus?

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What is absolute threshold

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What is the retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray; Necessary for peripheral and

twilight vision, when the other kinds of receptors don’t respond.

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What are Rods.

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What is the conversion of one form of energy into another.

In sensation, the transforming of stimulus energies (sounds,

sights, smells, etc.) into neural impulses our brains

can interpret

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What is Transduction

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What is the point at which the optic nerve

leaves the eye, creating “blind” areas because no receptor cells are located

there.

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What is Blind Spot

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What is Weber’s Law

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What is the principle that to be perceived as

different two stimuli must differ by a

constant percentage.

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Trichromatic Theory states?

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What is cones contain three different color

receptors: red, blue, and green.

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What theory states that opposing

processes occur within the eye to

enable color vision?

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What is opposing process theory

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What is the theory that the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the

frequency of a tone, thus enabling us to sense pitch

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What is Frequency Theory

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What theory states that the spinal cord contains a

neurological “gate” that blocks pain signals or allows them to

pass on to the brain.

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What is Gate- Control Theory

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Which anatomical structure does light

pass through primarily in order to

hit the iris?

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What is Cornea.

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Which structure of the eye do the cones cluster in and around

to maintain focus?

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What is Fovea.

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What is the name of the structure that has multilayered tissue on the eyeball’s sensitive inner surface.

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What is the Retina

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Where is the Basilar Membrane located

within the Ear?

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Where is Cochlea

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What are the name’s of the Ossicles?

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What is Malleus, incus, and stapes.

(Hammer, Anvil, and Stirrup)

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What is your sense of the position and movement of your body parts called?

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What is kinesthesis.

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What is the vestibular sense?

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What is your sense of balance.

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What kind of indication would

spawn from something sweet?

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What is an energy source.

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Smell + Texture + _________ = Flavor

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What is taste.

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Smell and Taste are processed in what lobe of the brain?

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What is Temporal.

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This image is an example of

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What is a Gestalt

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What is it called when humans fill in gaps to create a complete, whole object– we assume that the image is complete but partially blocked by

the illusory image.

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What is closure.

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The ability to see objects in three dimensions, although the image

strikes the retina in two dimensions is called?

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What is Depth Perception.

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When perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelength, what is occurring?

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What is color constancy.

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Schema Rationales organize what kind of

information in a organized and coherent form.

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What is Knowledge.