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| 7748671744 | feature detectors | nerve cells in brain, respond to specific features of stimulus shape,angle, or movement | 0 | |
| 7748680745 | accommodation | process where eye's lens change shape to focus near or far objects on the retina; focus rays by changing curvature | 1 | |
| 7748694387 | color constancy | ex. color with yellow sticker; black and blue dress | 2 | |
| 7748698821 | cochlea | inner ear; coiled fluid filled tube; sound waves trigger nerve impulse in cochlea; when fluid moves through bends hair cells to trigger neural impulse | 3 | |
| 7748712848 | middle ear | amplifies; eardrum; transmits to cochlea three bones: hammer,anvil, stirrup | 4 | |
| 7748726823 | frequency | num. of complete wavelengths that pass point at given time | 5 | |
| 7748733644 | pitch | tones experienced highness or lowness; depends on frequency | 6 | |
| 7748738514 | audition | the sense or act of hearing | 7 | |
| 7748741191 | after images | picture is no longer in front of you, but still see the image | 8 | |
| 7748765620 | opponent process theory | opposing retinal processes enable color vision | 9 | |
| 7748770597 | color blindness | color deficent; lack functioning red or green sensitive cones | 10 | |
| 7748779683 | young- helmholtz trichromatic theory | we have 3 diff types of receptor cells in our eyes; all colors we see are combo of red, blue, and green | 11 | |
| 7748788807 | parallel processing | processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneuously color, motion, form,depth | 12 | |
| 7748814732 | fovea | retinas area of central focus, around which the eyes cones cluster | 13 | |
| 7748820955 | blind spot | optic nerve leaves the eye, no receptor cells | 14 | |
| 7748829484 | optic nerve | nerve that carries neural impulse from eye to brain; thalamus stands ready to distribute info | 15 | |
| 7748837414 | cones | detect fine details and color sensations, daylight and well lit conditions | 16 | |
| 7748848322 | rods | retinal receptors detect black, white and gray; peripheral and twilight vision when cones don't respond; part of retina | 17 | |
| 7748861414 | retina | light sensitive inner surface of eye; contains receptor rods and cones | 18 | |
| 7748868343 | lens | behind pupil; changes shape to help focus images on retina | 19 | |
| 7748875118 | iris | surrounds pupil; controls size; colored portion of eye | 20 | |
| 7748880834 | pupil | small adjustable opening in center of eye; light enters | 21 | |
| 7748887317 | intensity | amnt. of energy in light or sound waves ( determined by waves amplitude or height); ifluences brightness | 22 | |
| 7748903506 | hue | dimension of color; determined by wavelength | 23 | |
| 7748911873 | wavelength | distance from peak of one light or sound wave to peak of next; determines its hue |  | 24 |
| 7748925908 | perceptual constancy | perceiving objects as unchanging even as the retina images change shape, brightness, size, color |  | 25 |
| 7748979902 | stroboscopic motion | brain perceives movement in a rapid series of slightly varying images; animation | 26 | |
| 7748989087 | phi phenomenon | illuson of movement caused by lights flashing in succession | 27 | |
| 7748997121 | monocular cues | distance cues that can be processed using only one eye | 28 | |
| 7749006355 | retinal disparity | comparing images from retinas in both eyes, brain determines distance; holding fingers in front of face | 29 | |
| 7749028836 | perceptual adaptation | visual ability to adjust to artifically displaced visual field | 30 | |
| 7749043405 | binocular cues | use both eyes to determine depth | 31 | |
| 7749052753 | visual cliff | lab test for testing depth perception in infants | 32 | |
| 7749063091 | depth perception | ability to see objects in 3D even though images striking our retinas are 2D | 33 | |
| 7749072825 | grouping | tendency to organize stimuli into groups that we understand connectedness, similarity, continuity, closure | 34 | |
| 7749888294 | figure ground relationship | organization of visual field into objects (figures); stand out from their surroudings (ground) |  | 35 |
| 7749905954 | sensorineural hearing loss | damage to cochleas receptor cells; or auditory nerve; once they die won't be replaced | 36 | |
| 7749919715 | conduction hearing loss | damage to mechanical system that conducts sound; can be fixed | 37 | |
| 7749925870 | gestalt | form, whole; emphazie tendency to intergrate pieces of info into meaning; visual organization; how our mind sees and thinks puts figures together | 38 | |
| 7749945956 | perceptual set | mental predisposition to perceive one thing, not another |  | 39 |
| 7749956687 | sensory adaptation | decline in sensitivity to a constant stimulus; febreeze commercials | 40 | |
| 7749962503 | webers law | to be perceived as different; two stimuli must differ by constant minimum percentage | 41 | |
| 7749979067 | difference threshold | just noticable difference; minimul difference a person can detect between two stimuli | 42 | |
| 7749985658 | priming | predisposing ones perception, memory or response; playing german music in alcohol store more people bought german wine | 43 | |
| 7750001232 | subliminal | below absolute threshold; where you detect stimulus in time; hearing test | 44 | |
| 7750010530 | frequency theory | rate of nerve impulses traveling up auditory nerve | 45 | |
| 7750024052 | place theory | diff. sound waves trigger diff places on cochlea; high freq= near base low= near apex | 46 | |
| 7750037394 | cochlear implant | deals with sensorineural hearing loss; help deaf people hear | 47 |
