INTRO TO PSYCH - SENSATION
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| A decrease in sensory response to an unchang- ing stimulus. | Sensory adaptation |
| Basic attributes of a stimulus, such as lines, shapes, edges, or colors. | Perceptual features |
| Giving priority to a particular incoming sensory message. | Selective attention |
| A failure to notice a stimulus because atten- tion is focused elsewhere. | Inattentional blindness |
| A theory of color vision based on three cone type s: red, green, and blue. | Trichromatic theory of color vision |
| Proposition that color vision is based on coding things as red or green, yellow or blue, or black or white. | Opponent-process theory of color vision |
| ELONGATED EYE | M y o p i a |
| Fairsightedness | Hyperopia |
| Rods cones | In dim light, vision depends mainly on the ____________________.In brighter light, color and fine detail are produced by the ____________________. |
| Opponent process theory | C o l o r e d a f t e r i m a g e s a r e b e s t e x p l a i n e d b y |
| Rhodopsin | D a r k a d a p t a t i o n i s d i r e c t l y r e l a t e d t o a n i n c r e a s e i n |
| Structure in cochlea containing hair cells that convert sound waves into action potentials | Basilar membrane |
| Proposition that pitch is decoded from the rate at which hair cells of the basilar membrane are firing | Frequency theory of hearing |
| Proposition that higher and lower tones excite specific areas of the cochlea | Place theory of hearing |
| Poor transfer of sounds from the eardrum to the inner ear | Conductive hearing loss |
| Loss of hearing caused by damage to the inner ear hair cells or auditory nerve | Sensorineural hearing loss |
| Damage caused by exposing hair cells to excessively loud sounds | Noise induced hearing loss |
| Sense of smell | Olfaction |
| Sense of taste | Gustation |
| A theory that holding odors are related to the shapes of chemical molecules | Lock and key theory of olfaction |
| The senses of body movement and positioning | Kinesthetic senses |
| Perception of balance, gravity, and acceleration | Vestibular senses |
| A theory proposing that pain messages pass through neural gates in the spinal cord | Gate control theory |
| Organizing perceptions by beginning with low level features | Button up processing |
| Perception guided by prior knowledge or expectations | Top down processing |
| Organizing a perception so that part of a stimulus appears to stand out as an object against a less prominent background | Figure-ground organization |
| An initial guess regarding how to organize a stimulus pattern | Perceptual hypothesis |
| The principle that the perceived size of an object remains constant despite changes in its retinal image | Size constancy |
| Two equal length lines tipped with inward or outward pointing Vs appear to be of different lengths. | Muller lyer illusion |
| A reversal of habituation | Dishabituation |