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| The stimulation of sense organs. | ||
| The selection, organization, and interpretation of sensory input. | ||
| The study of how physical stimuli are translated into psychological experience. | ||
| For a specific type of sensory input is the minimum stimulus intensity that an organism can detect. | ||
| The smallest difference in stimulus intensity that a specific sense can detect. | ||
| States that the size of a just noticeable difference is a constant proportion of the size of the initial stimulus. | ||
| Proposes that the detection of stimuli involves decision processes as well as sensory processes, which are both influenced by a variety of factors besides stimulus intensity. | ||
| The registration of sensory input without conscious awareness. | ||
| A gradual decline in sensitivity to prolonged stimulation. | ||
| The transparent eye structure that focuses the light rays falling on the retina. | ||
| Closes objects are seen clearly but distant objects appear blurry. | ||
| Distant objects are seen clearly but close objects appear blurry. | ||
| The opening in the center of the iris that permits light to pass into the rear chamber of the eye. | ||
| The neural tissue lining the inside back surface of the eye; it absorbs light , processes images, and sends visual information to the brain. | ||
| A hole in the retina where the optic nerve fibers exit the eye. | ||
| Specializes visual receptors that play a key role in daylight vision and colour vision. | ||
| A tiny spot in the center of the retina that contains only cones; visual acuilty is greatest at this spot. | ||
| Specialized visual receptors that play a key role in night vision and peripheral vision. | ||
| The process in which the eyes become more sensitive to light in low illumination. | ||
| The process whereby the eyes become less sensitive to light in high illumination. | ||
| The retinal area that, when stimulated, affects the firing of that cell. | ||
| Occurs when neural activity in a cell opposes activity in surrounding cells. | ||
| The point at which the optic nerve from the inside half of each eye cross over and project to the opposite half of the brain. | ||
| Involves simultaneously extracting different kinds of information from the same input. | ||
| Neurons that respond selectively to very specific features of more complex stimuli. | ||
| Removing some wavelengths of light, leaving less light than was originally there. | ||
| That the human eye has three types of receptors with differing sensitives to different light wavelengths. | ||
| A variety of deficiencies in the ability to to distinguish among colours. | ||
| Pairs of colours that produce gray tones when mixed together. | ||
| superimposing lights, putting more light in the mixture than exists in any one light by itself. | ||
| Colour perception depends on receptors that make antagonistic responses to three pairs of colours. | ||
| The failure to see visible objects or events because one's attention is focused elsewhere. |
