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| 6694113484 | Sensation | The bottom-up processes by which iur senses, like vision, hearing and smell, recieve and relay outside stimuli | 0 | |
| 6694113485 | Perception | The top-down way our brains organize and interpret information and put it into context | 1 | |
| 6694233756 | Signal detection theory | Model for predicting how and when a person will detect weak stimuli, partly based on a context | 2 | |
| 6694233757 | Diference threshold | ... | 3 | |
| 6694233758 | Higher amplitude - higher intensity | Yez | 4 | |
| 6694233759 | Light into eye | Cornea, pupil, lens, retina,nerve impulse | 5 | |
| 6694233760 | Rods/cones | Rodes - noncolour vision of low light, cones - sharpness and colour vision | 6 | |
| 6696014226 | Trichromatic theory | Proposes 3 types of cones - red, blue and green | 7 | |
| 6696014227 | Opponent process theory | Proposes 4 colours with cones arranged in pairs - red and green, blue and yellow | 8 | |
| 6696014228 | Monochrome colour blindess | People either dont have cones or they dont work | 9 | |
| 6696014229 | Red-green colour vision | Either red or green cones aren't working | 10 | |
| 6696014230 | Sound | Moves in wawes | 11 | |
| 6696014231 | Ear | Outer, middle, inner | 12 | |
| 6696014232 | Sensory interaction | Synesthesia - sense impression of one sense due to stimulation of another sense | 13 | |
| 6696014233 | Kinesthesis | The way our body senses its own movement and positioning | 14 | |
| 6696014234 | Vestibular sense | Monitors your head's position and balance | 15 | |
| 6696014235 | Proximity | Grouping objects (many football players - group) | 16 | |
| 6711385539 | Continuity | 17 | ||
| 6711385540 | Closure | 18 | ||
| 6711385541 | Depth perception | 3d vision | 19 | |
| 6711385542 | Binocular cues | Depends on using 2 eyes | 20 | |
| 6711385543 | Monocular cues | Depth cues such as interposition and linear perspective, available to either eye alone | 21 | |
| 6711385544 | Selective attention | Focusing on chosen stimuli | 22 | |
| 6711385545 | Sleep | Natural loss of conciusness | 23 | |
| 6711385546 | Insomnia | Problem falling staying asleep | 24 | |
| 6711385547 | Narcolepsy | Untrollable sleep attacks | 25 | |
| 6711385548 | Sleep apnea | Stopping breathing during sleep | 26 | |
| 6711385549 | The information processing theory | Our dreams help us sort out and process the day's events | 27 | |
| 6711385550 | Physiological function theory | Dreaming may promote neural development and preserve neural pathways | 28 | |
| 6711385551 | medulla | forms the lowest part of the brain, is responsible for mantaining life-sustaining functions such as breathing, heart rate, swallowing | 29 | |
| 6717796223 | pons | responsible for arousal, sleep, dreaming, left and right body coordination | 30 | |
| 6717796224 | reticular formation | responsible for selective attention | 31 | |
| 6717796225 | reticular formating system | responsible for keeping us aroused | 32 | |
| 6717796226 | cerebullum | responsible for voluntary movement | 33 | |
| 6717796227 | limbic system | hypothalamus, thalamus, hippocampus, amygdala | 34 | |
| 6717796228 | thalamus | responsible for processing sensory information | 35 | |
| 6717796229 | hypothalamus | responsible for hunger, thirst, sleeping, waking, temperature | 36 | |
| 6717796230 | hipppcampus | responsible for formation of longterm memories | 37 | |
| 6717796231 | amygdala | responsible for fear response and memory of fear | 38 | |
| 6717796232 | basal ganglia | responsible for planning and initiating movement | 39 | |
| 6717796233 | cortex is divided into | cerebral hemispheres (the left and right side of the brain) | 40 | |
| 6717796234 | corpus callosum | allows the left and right hemisphere to communicate between each other | 41 | |
| 6717796235 | occipital lobe | processes in primary visual cortex, makes sense out of in visual association cortex | 42 | |
| 6717796236 | parietal lobe | somatosensory cortex makes sense out of information from skin and internal body receptors | 43 | |
| 6717796237 | temporal lobe | primqry auditory cortex and auditory association cortex | 44 | |
| 6717796238 | frontal lobe | Part of the brain associated with motor control, decision making, and long-term memory storage, personality and planing | 45 | |
| 6717796239 | Broca's area | -language production - movements of the mouth damage - understands the language but has inability speak | 46 | |
| 6717796240 | Wernicke's area | understanding language and using words to describe what we mean. damage causes normal speech but inability to understand the speech of others | 47 | |
| 6717796241 | Spatial neglect | condition caused by the damage of the association are in right hemisphere resulting in an inability to respond to objects or body parts in the left visual field | 48 | |
| 6717796242 | the piturary gland | below hypothalamus, controls glanduar system. influences pregnancy and growth hormone | 49 | |
| 6717796243 | pineal gland | secretes melatonin which responds to daylight and seasonal changes (sleep/wake cycle) | 50 | |
| 6717796244 | thyroid gland | endocrine gland located below the voice box; it produces hormones which control metabolism | 51 | |
| 6717796245 | Pancrease | organ under the stomach -produces insulin and enzymes - blood sugar | 52 | |
| 6717796246 | the gonads | consist of the ovaries and testes. | 53 | |
| 6717796247 | The adrenal glands | consists of adrenal medulla and adrenal cortex | 54 | |
| 6717796248 | synesthesia | a condition in which people experience cross-modal sensations | 55 | |
| 6717796249 | Transduction | convertion of outside stimuli into neural activity | 56 | |
| 6717796250 | absolute threshold | the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time | 57 | |
| 6717796251 | Weber's Law | being able to differentiate 2% difference | 58 | |
| 6717796252 | subliminal perception | a stimulus below the level of the consumer's awareness | 59 | |
| 6717796253 | light | 3 aspects- brightness, hue, saturation | 60 | |
| 6717796254 | trichromatic theory | proposes 3 types of cones - red, blue and green | 61 | |
| 6717796255 | opponent processing theory | proposes 2 primary pairs of cones arranged in pairs - red and green, blue and yellow | 62 | |
| 6717796256 | Monochrome Color Blindness | people either don't have cones or they dont work | 63 | |
| 6717796257 | Red-green color blindness | either red or green cones aren't working | 64 | |
| 6717796258 | sound | properties - wavelength, amplitude and purity | 65 | |
| 6720820824 | Pacinian corpuscles | respond to deep pressure and vibration | 66 | |
| 6720820825 | free nerve endings | respond to pain and temperature | 67 | |
| 6720820826 | visceral pain | receptors that detect pain in internal organs | 68 | |
| 6720820827 | somatic pain | warning system that something is wrong | 69 | |
| 6720820828 | kinesthetic sense | location of body parts | 70 | |
| 6720820829 | vestibular sense | movement and body position. | 71 | |
| 6720820830 | sensory conflict theory | information from the eyes conflicts with the information from the vestibular system | 72 | |
| 6720820831 | top-down processing | the use of preexisting knowledge to organize individual features into a unified whole | 73 | |
| 6720820832 | bottom-down processing | the analysis of smaller features to build up a complete perception | 74 | |
| 6720820833 | Precognition | perceiving future events | 75 |
