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| 15365083193 | sensation | activation of receptors located in eyes, ears, skin, nose, and tongue |  | 0 |
| 15365089980 | transduction | process of converting outside stimuli into neural signals in the brain |  | 1 |
| 15365102904 | perception | interpretation of sensation |  | 2 |
| 15365109952 | synesthesia | conjoined senses |  | 3 |
| 15365148244 | absolute threshold | smallest amount of stimulus we can perceive |  | 4 |
| 15365160640 | weber's law | describes different thresholds for different senses -candle from 20 miles away | 5 | |
| 15365183321 | difference threshold (jnd) | just noticeable difference | 6 | |
| 15365225884 | signal detection theory | detection of a stimulus depends on the physical and psychological state of the individual |  | 7 |
| 15365236655 | feature detector | groups of neurons in visual cortex respond to different types of visual images |  | 8 |
| 15365258410 | subliminal perception | the brain doesn't consider a faint message very important - quick messages displayed during films | 9 | |
| 15365271356 | sensory habituation | perception of sensations is partially due to how focused we are on them -wearing a hat or shoes | 10 | |
| 15365372387 | sensory adaptation | decreasing responsiveness to stimuli due to constant stimulation -smell of perfume | 11 | |
| 15365743959 | mere exposure effect | idea that repeated presentation of novel stimuli increases liking to stimuli -liking a song after hearing it a lot | 12 | |
| 15365766100 | cocktail party phenomenon | selective attention -can hear what one person is saying in a group | 13 | |
| 15365783824 | visual accomodation | process of light passing through cornea, through pupil, through vitreous humor to the retina |  | 14 |
| 15381406752 | afterimage | when we look away, unused cones fire to balance the chemicals used up during staring |  | 15 |
| 15381417096 | rods | black white and grey |  | 16 |
| 15381420070 | cones | colors | | 17 |
| 15381420072 | trichromatic theory | three cones (red, green, and blue) tat activate in different combos to produce all colors (doesn't explain afterimage) |  | 18 |
| 15381436047 | opponent-process theory | four primary colors, receptors arranged in pairs, when one is stimulated, inhibits other from firing |  | 19 |
| 15381478341 | color blindness | mild to severe. red/green shades or blue/yellow shades |  | 20 |
| 15381485710 | order of light | photo receptor cells-bipolar cells-ganglian cells (optic nerve)-occipital lobe -light travels through eye | 21 | |
| 15381508918 | audition | perception of sound waves |  | 22 |
| 15381521313 | place theory | cochlea is like a piano, where the sound is |  | 23 |
| 15381530241 | frequency theory | speed of basilar membrane vibration corresponds to pitches |  | 24 |
| 15381545210 | volley principle | hair cells take turns firing |  | 25 |
| 15381551683 | conduction deafness | damage to outer ear and middle ear structures |  | 26 |
| 15381555846 | nerve deafness | damage to hair cells, normally by loud noise |  | 27 |
| 15381568059 | olfaction | sense of smell |  | 28 |
| 15381573358 | kinesthetic sense | body position and orientation of body parts |  | 29 |
| 15381577965 | vestibular sense | balance and movement -semicircular canals | 30 | |
| 15381584631 | gate-control theory | substances must pass through a gate in spinal cord |  | 31 |
| 15381595872 | substance p | neurotransmitter -pain | 32 | |
| 15381612684 | four aspects of perception | attention, the constancies (size, shape, color, and brightness), depth perception, gestalt |  | 33 |
| 15381633439 | perceptual constancies | maintaining a constant perception of an object despite changes |  | 34 |
| 15381641422 | size constancy | Perception of an object as the same size regardless of the distance from which it is viewed |  | 35 |
| 15381645805 | shape constancy | the tendency to interpret the shape of an object as being constant, even when its shape changes on the retina |  | 36 |
| 15381652671 | brightness/ color constancy | tendency to perceive objects as a certain level of brightness, even when the light changes |  | 37 |
| 15381659975 | monocular cues | linear perspective, overlap, texture, accommodation |  | 38 |
| 15381679123 | binocular cues | convergence and retinal disparity |  | 39 |
| 15381683252 | convergence | inward movement of both eyes -camera focusing | 40 | |
| 15381688142 | retinal disparity | binocular overlap, disparity |  | 41 |
| 15381705814 | gestalt principles | how we see things the way we are |  | 42 |
| 15381709165 | schemata | (schema) a predisposition to perceive something in a certain way |  | 43 |
| 15381716585 | context effects | perception affected by environmental factors |  | 44 |
| 15381723704 | figure ground | mentally put images in background and foreground | | 45 |
| 15381729540 | closure | mentally draw in lines to make patterns |  | 46 |
| 15381735378 | important 4 perceptions | similarity, proximity, continuity, closure |  | 47 |
| 15381760324 | top down | use background knowledge to fill in gaps in what we sense |  | 48 |
| 15381765714 | bottom up | you use features of an object itself to build a complete perception |  | 49 |
| 15381773401 | ESP | is defined as a claim of perception that occurs without using normal sensory channels -long island medium | 50 |
