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| 7622235430 | Sensation | Process by which our sensory receptors recieve stimulus energies from the environment | 0 | |
| 7622235431 | Perception | Process by organizing and interpreting sensory information. Enabling us to recognize meaningful events/objects | 1 | |
| 7622235432 | Bottom-Up Processing | Begins with sensory receptors that send up to the brain | 2 | |
| 7622235433 | Top-Down Processing | Conducted by higher level mental processes, construct drawings on experiences and expectations Example: Michelle one time had a comment given to her in a specific pitch (offensive comment). Now, every time she hears a comment in that pitch she finds it offensive. | 3 | |
| 7622235434 | Selective Attention | Focusing on conscious awareness on a particular stimulus Example: My selective attention right now is doing this quizlet. | 4 | |
| 7622235435 | Cocktail Party Effect | Example: Hearing your name at the other side of the room. or when we hear there will be a pop quiz, you will immediately question if we have one | 5 | |
| 7622235436 | Inattentional Blindness | Failing to see visible objects when our attention is elsewhere Example: When you're texting and driving. You're attention is only on the phone; thus, you get into a car crash. | 6 | |
| 7622235437 | Change Blindness | Failure to see changes in the environment Example: Not noticing the change in desks in a classroom | 7 | |
| 7622235438 | Change Blindness includes : | Change Deafness Choice Blindness | 8 | |
| 7622235439 | Change Deafness | People ignore or tune you out because you have changed Example: Daniella's father likes Marco Rubio. Daniella doesn't like Marco Rubio. Whenever Daniella makes a comment about Marco Rubio her father tunes her out. | 9 | |
| 7622235440 | Choice Blindness | Choosing to ignore something because you don't like it Example: Son who tells parent he is gay. Parent will ignore that the son is gay and act like he isn't. | 10 | |
| 7622235441 | Psychophysics | Study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity, and our psychological experience on them | 11 | |
| 7622235442 | Absolute Threshold | Minimum stimulation necessary to detect a particular stimuli 50% of the time | 12 | |
| 7622235443 | Signal-Detection Theory | When we detect the presence of a faint stimulus amid loud background noise w/out having to achieve threshold based on alertness experience | 13 | |
| 7622235444 | Subliminal | Below one's absolute threshold for conscious awareness Example: Brushing our teeth, we don't think about it. (natural) | 14 | |
| 7622235445 | Priming | Predisposing one's perception, memory, or response Example: Showing a scary photo of a clown. Later someone shows the image of a man, but the person thinks the man is scary due to them being primed w/ the stimulus of being scared already. | 15 | |
| 7622235446 | Difference Threshold (nickname = noticeable difference) | Minimum difference between 2 stimuli required for detection 50% of the time | 16 | |
| 7622235447 | Weber's Law | To be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by constant percentage | 17 | |
| 7622235448 | Sensory Adaptation | Diminished sensitivity as a result of constant stimulation Example: Stare at a photo of a man (the eye) parts of vision is lost & face starts to disappear | 18 | |
| 7622235449 | Transduction | Conversion of one form of energy into another, transforming of stimulus energies such a sights | 19 | |
| 7622235450 | Wavelength | Distance from one peak of light or sound wave to the next |  | 20 |
| 7622235451 | Intensity | Hight of sound wave; amount of energy in a light or sound wave perceived as brightness or loudness | 21 | |
| 7622235452 | Hue | Dimension of color the wavelength produces | 22 | |
| 7622235453 | Physical Properties of Waves | Short= Blue Long=Red Great Amplitude= Bright Colors Low Amplitude=Dull Colors |  | 23 |
| 7622235454 | Pupil | Adjustable opening in the eye which light enters | 24 | |
| 7622235455 | Cornea | Transparent part of eye that protects it all | 25 | |
| 7622235456 | Iris | Ring of muscle tissue surrounding pupil (color portion) controls opening and closing | 26 | |
| 7622235457 | Lens | Transparent structure behind pupil that changes shape to help focus | 27 | |
| 7622235458 | Retina | Light-sensitive inner-surface of the eye, containing receptor rods and cones, first stage of visual processing | 28 | |
| 7622235459 | Eyeball Anatomy |  | 29 | |
| 7622235460 | Rods | Help you see at night, black/white/grey, peripheral vision | 30 | |
| 7622235461 | Cones | Retinal receptor cells, work well in day-time, colors, details | 31 | |
| 7622235462 | (Retina) Optic Nerve | Nerve that carries neural impulses from eye to brain | 32 | |
| 7622235463 | Fovea | Central focal point in retina, where eye's cones cluster | 33 | |
| 7622235464 | Blind Spot | Point at which optic nerve leaves eye, no more receptor cells are located there | 34 | |
| 7622235465 | Visual Info. | Scene Retinal Processing- receptor rods & cones Feature Detection- cells respond to specific features Parallel Processing- brain cell gets info. about color/depth Recognition- brain interprets images based on info. | 35 | |
| 7622235466 | Feature Detectors | Cells in brain that detect structures of stimuli (shape,angle,movement) | 36 | |
| 7622235467 | Parallel Processing | Our brain is able to detect details consciously and unconsciously Example: We see a flock of birds and are able to describe it | 37 | |
| 7622235468 | Young-Helmoholtz Trichromatic Theory | Theory that retina contains 3 color receptors (Red-Green-Blue) sensitive eyes If you're color blind you can't see 1 or 2 colors | 38 | |
| 7622235469 | Monochromatic Vision | You only see one of the three colors | 39 | |
| 7622235470 | Dichromatic Vision | We can see two of these colors | 40 | |
| 7622235471 | Opponent Processing Theory | Colors cancel out Red-Green Blue-Yellow Black-White | 41 | |
| 7622235472 | Audition | Sense of act or hearing | 42 | |
| 7622235473 | Amplitude is how | Tall the wave is, reason it's called amplitude is due to the loudness | 43 | |
| 7622235474 | Frequency | How often wavelength shows up | 44 | |
| 7622235475 | Pitch | Tone of sound you're listening to; highness or lowness | 45 | |
| 7622235476 | Outer Ear contains ____ & ____ | -Auditory Canal -Ear Drum | 46 | |
| 7622235477 | Sound waves travel down ______ to the _____ | Auditory Canal, Eardrum | 47 | |
| 7622235478 | The ear drum is able to process sound how? | By hitting w/ vibrations | 48 | |
| 7622235479 | Auditory Canal |  | 49 | |
| 7622235480 | Ear Drum |  | 50 | |
| 7622235481 | Middle Ear contains ____, ____, and ____ The functions of those three bones are to | Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup Send vibrations | 51 | |
| 7622235482 | Outer & Middle Ear Anatomy |  | 52 | |
| 7622235483 | Vibrations from the ear drum go to the ____ | Hammer | 53 | |
| 7622235484 | The hammer then transfers _____ to the ____ | Vibrations, anvil | 54 | |
| 7622235485 | Anvil is connected to the ____ | stirrup | 55 | |
| 7622235486 | Inner Ear contains ____, ____, ____, ____, & ____ | Cochlea, canals, and vestibular sacs, oval window, & auditory nerve | 56 | |
| 7622235487 | Cochlea | Bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear through which sound waves trigger neural impulses | 57 | |
| 7622235488 | Between the stirrup and cochlea there is a ____ | Oval Window | 58 | |
| 7622235489 | Oval Window | Space between stirrup and cochlea that pounds the cochlea | 59 | |
| 7622235490 | Someone who has vertigo has no | Fluid filled in their cochlea | 60 | |
| 7622235491 | Auditory Nerve | Sends neural impulses form ear to brain | 61 | |
| 7622235492 | Auditory Cortex | Our brain will process things we see | 62 | |
| 7622235493 | Basilar Membranes Hair Cells | Help interpret loudness of sound & compressed sons (muffled noises) | 63 | |
| 7622235494 | Place Theory (Cochlea) | High pitched sounds | 64 | |
| 7622235495 | Frequency Theory (Auditory Nerve) | Low pitched sounds | 65 | |
| 7622235496 | *Stereophonic Hearing* | Cellphones & headphones Example: Placing a phone in a cup | 66 | |
| 7622235497 | *Localization of Sounds* | Speed of sounds | 67 | |
| 7622235498 | Conduction Hearing Loss (Middle Ear) | Hearing aids amplify sound & start up mechanisms | 68 | |
| 7622235499 | Sensorineural Hearing Loss (Inner Ear) | Damage to receptor cells of cochlea | 69 | |
| 7622235500 | Cochlea Implant | Insides skull attached to cochlea; converts sound to neural impulses | 70 | |
| 7622235501 | Types of Touch | Pressure Warmth Cold Pain | 71 | |
| 7622235502 | Kinesthesis | System for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts, how we sense body parts moving Example: Knowing that your arm is by your side and how far you need to move it to pick up and object | 72 | |
| 7622235503 | Vestibular Sense | Sense of body movement and position including sense of balance, controlled by the hair in your ears | 73 | |
| 7622235504 | Nociceptors | Responsible for telling your brain that something hurts | 74 | |
| 7622235505 | Gate Control Theory | Theory that spinal cord contains a "gate" that blocks pain signals or lets pass depending on how bad the pain is Example: While you're playing sports you won't feel pain because the increase of endorphins. Though, when you get home you'll realize something hurts. | 75 | |
| 7622235506 | Phantom Limb Sensations | When you get your leg amputated and your brain thinks the pain is still there | 76 | |
| 7622235507 | Tinnitus | Phantom sound Example: When you think your phone is ringing or you get a text message sound. | 77 | |
| 7622235508 | Taste | Sweet, sour, salty, and bitter | 78 | |
| 7622235509 | Umami | Savory taste, proteins to grow and repair tissues | 79 | |
| 7622235510 | Age and tastebuds | When you get older your tastebuds begin to die | 80 | |
| 7622235511 | Sensory Interaction | Principle that one sense may influence another, interaction of smell and taste (McGurk Effect) Example: "It smells just like it tastes" "It looks as good as it smells" Connections with a Peppermint Mocha to winter | 81 | |
| 7622235512 | Smell Olfaction *Chemical Sense | Example: Chemicals in perfume don't react well with the nose | 82 | |
| 7622235513 | *Odor Molecules | Example: The perfume chemicals Chemicals of the odor that will interact with the nose | 83 | |
| 7622235514 | *Olfactory Bulb | Part of nose that receives smell | 84 | |
| 7622235515 | *Olfactory Nerve | Never that sends smell to brain | 85 | |
| 7622235516 | Our sense of smell is near the ____ part of our brain | Memory | 86 |
