unit 3 ap psych Flashcards

12986634626	phenomenon where you can pick out the important information, such as your name, when in a conversation on the other side of the room	cocktail party effect	0
12986634627	the information you take in	sensation	1
12986634628	The minimum amount of stimulus required to pick it up and process it	absolute threshold	2
12986634629	ability to detect different hues of color	difference threshold	3
12986634630	Ability to focus on one aspect of the environment at a time	Selective attention	4
12986634631	Feeling overwhelmed by too much stimuli	sensory overload	5
12986634632	type of processing that is your body's response	bottom up processing	6
12986634633	Type of processing that is your brain processing the information	top down processing	7
12986634634	Emotional response of a sensation	Perception	8
12986634635	getting used to a certain level of stimulus	sensory adaptation	9
12986634636	Opening in the iris changes shape In light and dark	pupil	10
12986634637	colored part of the eye the muscle that constricts pupil	Iris	11
12986634638	Changes shape to send best image to the back of the eye flips image upside down	Lens	12
12986634639	Back of the eye contains rods and cones	Retina	13
12986634640	light-sensitive cells that convert light energy to neural energy	Photo receptors	14
12986634641	Area of sharpest vision	fovea	15
12986634642	Area in the retina with out photo receptors	Blind spot	16
12986634643	protective layer of the eye	cornea	17
12986634644	Carries impulses from the retina to the brain bundle of neurons and fibers	optic nerve	18
12986634645	What you see exist in the real world	Distal stimulus	19
12986634646	image formed in mind	proximal stimulus	20
12986634647	Specific cells that see lines, motion, curves, and other features	Feature detectors	21
12986634648	our most dominant sons	vision	22
12986634649	visible spectrum	Light energy	23
12986634650	Distance from the peak of one light wave to the peak of the next	wavelength	24
12986634651	Amount of energy in a light wave also determined by height of the wave	intensity	25
12986634652	Height of the wave	amplitude	26
12986634653	This theory realized any color can be created by combining the light waves of three primary colors	trichromatic theory	27
12986634654	Combining the two images into one	binocular fusion	28
12986634655	See depth with one eye	monocular cue	29
12986634656	When watching an object close to us our eyes point slightly in word	binocular cue	30
12986634657	Distant objects appear higher and smaller	Relative height	31
12986634658	Parallel lines converge with distance	Linear perspective	32
12986634659	Closer objects overlap objects in the back	Interposition	33
12986634660	Closer objects appear to be moving more quickly	Relative motion	34
12986634661	Hazy objects are further away	relative clarity	35
12986634662	closer objects have more detail	Texter density gradient	36
12986634663	objects can still be classified regardless of view	Constancy	37
12986634664	Main object first, background second	Law of figure ground	38
12986634665	Brain closes an open image	Law of closure	39
12986634666	Grouping close objects together	Law of proximity	40
12986634667	Grouping similar objects together	Law of similarity	41
12986634668	The eye follows the smoothest course	Law of continuity	42
12986634669	Grouping objects moving in the same direction	Law of common fate	43
12986634670	Light sensitive cells become less responsive to certain colors of light. Different colors show through after you get used to certain level of color light	After images	44
12986634671	Bonds that allow color vision break when you switch focus	Opponent process theory	45
12986634672	Failure to notice a change	Change blindness	46
12986634673	Failure to notice an unexpected stimuli	in-attentional blindness	47
12986634674	Face blindness	prosopagnosia	48
12986634675	What you come to expect from a stimulus	set	49
12986634676	Disposition to read the words first	Stroop affect	50
12986634677	Sensation that a amputated were missing limb is still attached to the body and is moving appropriately with other body parts	Phantom limb	51
12986634678	Stimulation of one sensory path way leads to automatic involuntary experiences in a second sensory path way	synesthesia	52
12986634679	Exposure to a stimulus influences your response	priming	53
12986634680	Everything underneath the absolute threshold	Subliminal messages	54
12986634681	Ability to be aware of the location of your own body parts in relation to another	proprioception	55
12986634682	Ability to be aware of the motion of your own body parts in relation to another	kinesthesia	56
12986634683	Interaction of hearing and vision	mcgurk effect	57
12986634684	Different hair's vibrate in the cochlea when they interpret different pitches. Some hairs vibrate when they hear high pitches and others vibrate when they hear low pitches	Place theory	58
12986634685	The rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of tone, thus enabling us to sense it's pitch. All the hairs vibrate but at different speeds	Frequency theory	59
12986634686	The outside structure of the ear. The accessory structure	pinna	60
12986634687	Get sound waves and sends to best place	eardrum	61
12986634688	Transmits vibrations. They hit the eardrum then the hammer then the anvil then the stirrup	middle ear	62
12986634689	Vibrational energy of vibrating objects, transfer the surrounding air as the vibrating objects push molecules back-and-forth	hearing	63
12986634690	Number of cycles of complete wavelengths in a given amount of time determines pitch	Frequency	64
12986634691	how loud the sound is. The higher the crest of the wave, the louder the sound	amplitude	65
12986634692	Gustation. Specialized nerves carry nothing but taste messages to the brain	taste	66
12986634693	Savory, like meats	umami	67
12986634694	Drying, like a apple	astringent	68
12986634695	olfaction. orders first reaction with receptor proteins associated with hairs in the nose	smell	69