Ap Flashcards

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