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| 5745296732 | Transduction | The signals are transformed into neural impulses. |  | 0 |
| 5745328697 | Sensory Adaption | decreasing responsiveness to stimuli due to constant stimulation. ex. the feeling of socks on your feet. | 1 | |
| 5745336299 | Sensory Habitation | our perception of sensations is partially due to how focused we are on them. ex. baby crying | 2 | |
| 5745341593 | Cock-tail Party effect | what you choose to pay attention to. ex. when you're talking to a person and someone across the room says your name. | 3 | |
| 5745349555 | Sensation | activation of our senses ex. ears, eyes |  | 4 |
| 5745353669 | Perception | the process of understanding sensations. |  | 5 |
| 5745358970 | energy senses | vision (light), Hearing (sound waves), and touch (pressure) |  | 6 |
| 5745362461 | Chemical senses | smell and taste |  | 7 |
| 5745365175 | Vision | dominant sense in human beings ex. television | 8 | |
| 5745366947 | cornea | a protective covering that helps focus light |  | 9 |
| 5745374547 | retina | like a screen on the back of your eye. ex. movie screen | 10 | |
| 5745379457 | lens | curved and flexible to focus the light. ex. focusing on one finger | 11 | |
| 5745382298 | rods | cells that respond to black and white |  | 12 |
| 5745386124 | cones | cells that are activated by color |  | 13 |
| 5745391768 | pupil | like a shutter of a camera. ex. blink if an eye | 14 | |
| 5745394258 | optic nerve | impulses from the left and right side of each retina |  | 15 |
| 5745400943 | occipital lobe | the part of the brain responsible for sight. ex. occipital= optical | 16 | |
| 5745406745 | visible light | light that you can physically see. |  | 17 |
| 5745410025 | fovea | contains the highest concentration of cones. |  | 18 |
| 5745412549 | blind spot | the spot where the optic nerve leaves the retina, has no rods or cones. |  | 19 |
| 5745418607 | trichromatic theory | three color theory ex. blue, red, green | 20 | |
| 5745422559 | color blindness | the lack of seeing a color |  | 21 |
| 5745428170 | after image | staring at one color for a while and then looking into blank space. ex. green afterimage= red | 22 | |
| 5745434209 | opponent -process theory | the sensory receptors arranged in the retina come in pairs: red/green, yellow/blue, and black/white | 23 | |
| 5745440963 | hearing | made up of a series of pressures, that can be represented by waves. |  | 24 |
| 5745446677 | sound waves | vibrations in the air rather than electromagnetic waves. | 25 | |
| 5745453195 | amplitude | the height of the wave and determines the loudness of the sound ex. measured in decibels | 26 | |
| 5745463457 | frequency | the length of waves and determines pitch. ex. measured in megahertz | 27 | |
| 5745475348 | cochlea | a structure shaped like a snail's shell filled with fluid. | 28 | |
| 5745479003 | pitch theories | two processes involved in hearing pitch. |  | 29 |
| 5745483659 | place theory | hair cells in the cochlea respond to different frequencies of sound based on where they are located in the cochlea. | 30 | |
| 5745491504 | frequency theory | hairs cells sense the upper range of pitches but not the lower tones. | 31 | |
| 5745495583 | conduction deafness | occurs when something goes wrong with the system of conducting the sound to the cochlea |  | 32 |
| 5745501659 | nerve deafness | more difficult to treat since no method has been found that will encourage the hair cells to regenerate. |  | 33 |
| 5745506631 | touch | when our skin is indented, pierce, or experiences a change in temp. | 34 | |
| 5745512177 | gate - control theory | helps how we experience pain the way we do, some pain messages have a higher priority than others. |  | 35 |
| 5745521268 | taste (gustation) | the nerves involved in the chemical senses respond to chemicals rather than energy. |  | 36 |
| 5745526840 | smell | depends on chemicals emitted by substances. |  | 37 |
| 5745531420 | vestibular sense | how our body is oriented in space |  | 38 |
| 5745535819 | kinesthetic sense | gives us feedback about the position and orientation of specific body parts. |  | 39 |
| 5745546996 | absolute threshold | the smallest amount of stimulus we can detect. |  | 40 |
| 5745552191 | subliminal messages | we dont perceive these messages because theyre below the threshold. |  | 41 |
| 5745558631 | difference threshold | defines a stimulus need to change before we notice the difference. |  | 42 |
| 5745562223 | weber's law | the change is needed proportional to the original intensity . |  | 43 |
| 5745566464 | signal detection theory | the effects of the distractions and interference we experience while perceiving the world. |  | 44 |
| 5745574406 | top down processing | when you use your background knowledge to fill in gaps in what you perceive. ex. how something tastes. | 45 | |
| 5745579880 | perceptual set | a predisposition to perceiving something in a certain way. | 46 | |
| 5745583397 | bottom- up processing | use our features of the object itself to build a complete perception |  | 47 |
| 5745607875 | gestalt rules | use our features of the object itself to build a complete perception |  | 48 |
| 5745610404 | proximity | objects that are close together are more likely to be perceived as belonging in the same group |  | 49 |
| 5745615686 | similarity | objects that are similar in appearance are more likely to be perceived as belonging in the same group. |  | 50 |
| 5745622033 | continuity | objects that form a continuous form are more likely to be perceived as belonging in the same group. ex. a trail | 51 | |
| 5745632446 | closure | objects that make up recognizable image are more likely to be perceived as belonging in the same group. |  | 52 |
| 5745641388 | constancy | our ability to maintain a constant perception of an object despite these changes |  | 53 |
| 5745647888 | depth cues | how we perceive the world as a two dimensional flat surface. |  | 54 |
