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| 1548852818 | Gestalt Principle | Principles that describe the brains organization of sensory information into meaningful units and patterns | 1 | |
| 1548852819 | binocular cues | Visual cues to depth or distance requiring two eyes. | 2 | |
| 1548852820 | convergence | The turning inward of the eyes, which occurs when they focus on a nearby object. | 3 | |
| 1548852821 | retinal disparity | The slight difference in lateral separation between two objects as seen by the left eye and the right eye. | 4 | |
| 1548852822 | monocular cues | Visual cues to depth or distance that can be used by one eye alone. (linear perspective, shading, relative height, depth perception) | 5 | |
| 1549393384 | pitch | The dimension of auditory experience related to the frequency of a pressure wave; the height or depth of a tone. | 6 | |
| 1549393385 | Ambiguity | an impt concept in understanding perception -single image> multiple interpretation | 7 | |
| 1549393386 | retinal disparity | The slight difference in lateral separation between two objects as seen by the left eye and the right eye. | 8 | |
| 1549393387 | perceptual constancy | The accurate perception of objects as stable or unchanged despite changes in the sensory patterns they produce. | 9 | |
| 1549393388 | sensation | The detection of physical energy emitted or reflected by by physical objects; it occurs when energy in the external environment or the body stimulates receptors in the sense organs. | 10 | |
| 1549393389 | perception | The process by which the brain organizes and interprets sensory information | 11 | |
| 1549393390 | sense receptors | Specialized cells that convert physical energy in the environment or the body to electrical energy that can be transmitted as nerve impulses to the brain. | 12 | |
| 1549393391 | doctrine of specific nerve | The principle that different sensory modalities exist because signals received by the sense organs stimulates different nerve pathways leading to different areas of the brain. | 13 | |
| 1549393392 | synesthesia | A condition in which stimulation of one sense also evokes another. | 14 | |
| 1549393393 | absolute threshold | The smallest quantity of physical energy that can be reliably detected by an observer. | 15 | |
| 1549393394 | difference threshold | The smallest difference in stimulation that can be reliably detected by an observer when two stimuli are compared; also called just noticeable difference(jnd) | 16 | |
| 1549393395 | signal- detection theory | A psychophysical theory that divides the detection of a sensory signal into a sensory process and a decision process. | 17 | |
| 1549393396 | sensory adaptation | The reduction or disappearance of sensory responsiveness when stimulation is unchanging or repetitious. | 18 | |
| 1549393397 | sensory deprivation | The absence of normal levels of sensory stimulation | 19 | |
| 1549393398 | selective attention | The focusing of attention on selected aspects of the environment and the blocking out of others | 20 | |
| 1549393399 | in attentional blindness | Failure to consciously perceive something you are looking at because you are not attending to it. | 21 | |
| 1549417039 | hue | The dimension of visual experience specified by colour names and related to the wave lengths of light | 22 | |
| 1549417040 | brightness | Lightness or luminance; the dimension of visual experience related to the amount of light emitted from or reflected by an object. | 23 | |
| 1549417041 | saturation | Vividness or purity of colour; the dimension of visual experience related to the complexity of light waves. | 24 | |
| 1549417042 | retina | Neural tissue lining the back of the eyeballs interior, which contains the receptors for vision | 25 | |
| 1549417043 | rods | Visual receptors that respond to dim light | 26 | |
| 1549417044 | cones | Visual receptors involved in colour vision. | 27 | |
| 1549417045 | dark adaptation | A process by which visual receptors become maximally sensitive to dim light | 28 | |
| 1549417046 | ganglion cells | Neurons in the retina of the eye that gather information from receptor cells (by way of intermediate bipolar cells); their axons make up the optic nerve. | 29 | |
| 1549417047 | feature detector cells | Cells in the visual cortex that are sensitive to specific features of the environment. | 30 | |
| 1549417048 | trichromatic theory | A theory of colour perception that proposes three mechanisms in the visual system, each sensitive to a certain range of wavelengths; their interaction is assumed to produce all the different experiences of hue. | 31 | |
| 1549417049 | opponent-process theory | A theory of colour perception that assumes that the visual system treats pairs of colours as opposing or antagonistic. | 32 |
