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| 5529433676 | Absolute threshold | the lowest level of a stimulus —light, sound, touch, etc.—that an organism could detect. | 0 | |
| 5529433677 | Accommodation | involves altering one's existing schemas, or ideas, as a result of new information or new experiences. | 1 | |
| 5529433678 | Selective Attention | the process by which a person can selectively pick out one message from a mixture of messages occurring simultaneously | 2 | |
| 5529433679 | Parallel Processing | The ability for the brain to process many things at once. | 3 | |
| 5529433680 | Kinesthesis | body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individuals parts of your body with receptor in muscles, tendons, and joints | 4 | |
| 5529433681 | Sensation | A physical feeling or perception resulting from something that happens to or comes into contact with the body | 5 | |
| 5529433682 | Figure-ground | Recognizing objects through vision. Identifies a figure from a background. | 6 | |
| 5529433683 | Sensory Adaption | The process in which changes in the sensitivity of sensory receptors occur in relation to the stimulus | 7 | |
| 5529433684 | Difference threshold | the smallest amount by which two sensory stimuli can differ in order for an individual to perceive them as different. | 8 | |
| 5529433685 | Sensory Interaction | this is the principle that one sense can influence another. Smell influences taste. | 9 | |
| 5529433686 | signal detection theory | is a means to quantify the ability to discern between information-bearing patterns (called stimulus in humans, signal in machines) and random patterns that distract from the information (called noise, consisting of background stimuli and random activity of the detection ... | 10 | |
| 5529433687 | Somatosensation | the skin: touch/pressure, warmth, cold, pain | 11 | |
| 5529433688 | Grouping (gestalt 'laws') | Set of principles. Accounts for the observation that humans perceive objects as organized patterns and objects naturally. | 12 | |
| 5529433689 | Vestibular sense | body sense of equilibrium with hairlike receptors in semicircular canals and vestibular sac in the inner ear | 13 | |
| 5529433690 | Olfaction | The sense of smell of with the receptors in the mucous membrane on the roof of the nasal cavity. | 14 | |
| 5529433691 | Rods | are photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye that can function in less intense light than the other type of visual photoreceptor, cone cells. | 15 | |
| 5529433692 | Pitch | the quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone. | 16 | |
| 5529433693 | Place Theory | is a theory of hearing which states that our perception of sound depends on where each component frequency produces vibrations along the basilar membrane. | 17 | |
| 5529433694 | Sensorineural Hearing Loss | is a type of hearing loss, or deafness, in which the root cause lies in the inner ear (cochlea and associated structures), vestibulocochlear nerve (cranial nerve VIII), or central auditory processing centers of the brain. | 18 | |
| 5529433695 | Visual Cliff Experiments | to investigate depth perception in human and animal species. | 19 | |
| 5529433696 | Hue | A color or shade | 20 | |
| 5529433697 | Priming | is an implicit memory effect in which exposure to one stimulus influences the response to another stimulus. | 21 | |
| 5529433698 | Binocular cues | visual information that are taken by two eyes that allow us a sense of depth perception, or stereopsis. | 22 | |
| 5529433700 | Fovea | a small depression in the retina of the eye where visual acuity is highest. The center of the field of vision is focused in this region, where retinal cones are particularly concentrated. | 23 | |
| 5529433701 | Wavelength | the distance between successive crests of a wave, especially points in a sound wave or electromagnetic wave. | 24 | |
| 5529433702 | Stroboscopic Effect | visual phenomenon that makes moving objects appear still when viewed in discrete series of short or instantaneous as distinct from a continuous view. | 25 | |
| 5529433703 | divided attention | Paying attention to 2 things at once so more tasks can be performed at the same time. | 26 | |
| 5529433704 | top down processing | we form our perceptions starting with a larger object, concept, or idea before working our way toward more detailed information. | 27 | |
| 5529433705 | Subliminal | existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness | 28 | |
| 5529433706 | Frequency | the number of complete waves that pass a given point in space every second | 29 | |
| 5529433708 | cones | A type of specialized light-sensitive cell (photoreceptor) in the retina of the eye that provides color vision and sharp central vision. | 30 | |
| 5529433709 | Gustation | the chemical sense of taste with receptors cells in the taste bud in fungiform papillae on the tongue, on the roof of the mouth, and in the throat. | 31 | |
| 5529433710 | Gate-control theory | pain is experienced only if the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain. The gate is opened by small nerve fiber that carry pain signals and closed by neural activity of larger nerve fibers, which conduct most other sensory signals, or by information coming from the brain | 32 | |
| 5529433711 | Perceptual Constancy | animals and humans to see familiar objects that have standard shape, size, color, or location no matter the changes in the angle of perceptive, distance, or lighting. | 33 | |
| 5529433712 | Amplitude | The maximum extent of a vibration or oscillation, measured from the position of equilibrium | 34 | |
| 5529433713 | Extrasensory Perception | The faculty of perceiving things by means other than the known senses | 35 | |
| 5529433715 | Gestalt | an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts. | 36 | |
| 5529433717 | Weber's Laws | difference threshold increase in proportion to the size of the stimulus | 37 | |
| 5529433718 | Inattentional blindness | also known as perceptual blindness, is a psychological lack of attention and is not associated with any vision defects or deficits. | 38 | |
| 5529433720 | Photoreceptors | modified neurons that convert light energy to electrochemical neural impulses | 39 | |
| 5529433721 | Acuity | ability to detect fine details; sharpness of vision. Can be affected by small distortions in the shape of the eye | 40 | |
| 5529433722 | Proximal Stimulus | physical stimulation that is available to be measured by an observer's sensory apparatus. | 41 | |
| 5529433723 | Perceptual Adaptation | the ability of the body to adapt to an environment by tuning out distractions. | 42 | |
| 5529433724 | Phi Phenomenon | the optical illusion of perceiving a series of still images | 43 | |
| 5529433725 | bottom-up processing | as an approach wherein there is a progression from the individual elements to the whole. | 44 | |
| 5529433726 | Opponent-process theory | proposed mechanism for color vision with opposing retinal process for red-green, yellow-blue, white-black. Some retinal cells are stimulated by one of a pair in inhibited by the other | 45 | |
| 5529433727 | Attention | the set of process from which you choose among the various stimuli bombarding your senses at any instant, allowing some to be further processed by your senses and brain | 46 | |
| 5529433728 | illusion | a perception, as of visual stimuli that represents what is perceived in a way different from the way it is in reality. | 47 | |
| 5529433730 | Audition | the sense of hearing. The loudness of a sound is determined by the amplitude or height of the sound wave | 48 | |
| 5529433731 | Cocktail Party Effect | is the phenomenon of being able to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, much the same way that a partygoer can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room. | 49 | |
| 5529433732 | Change Blindness | is a surprising perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus is introduced and the observer does not notice it. | 50 | |
| 5529433733 | intensity | Intensity refers to light and sound waves, and is defined as the amount of energy in a light or sound wave. | 51 | |
| 5529433734 | Conduction Hearing Loss | occurs when there is a problem conducting sound waves anywhere along the route through the outer ear, tympanic membrane (eardrum), or middle ear (ossicles). | 52 |
