Myers 7th Edition - Chapter 05 Vocabulary
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| Sensation | show 🗑
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| Perception | show 🗑
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| Bottom-up processing | show 🗑
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| show | Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations.
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| show | The study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity, and our psychological experience of them.
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| Absolute threshold | show 🗑
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| Signal detection theory | show 🗑
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| show | Below one's absolute threshold for conscious awareness.
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| show | The minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50 percent of the time. We experience the difference threshold as a just noticeable difference. (Also called just noticeable difference or jnd.)
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| Weber's law | show 🗑
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| Sensory adaptation | show 🗑
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| show | Conversion of one form of energy into another. In sensation, the transforming of stimulus energies into neural impulses.
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| Wavelength | show 🗑
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| Hue | show 🗑
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| show | The amount of energy in a light or sound wave, which we perceive as brightness or loudness, as determined by the wave's amplitude.
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| Pupil | show 🗑
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| Iris | show 🗑
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| Lens | show 🗑
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| Accommodation | show 🗑
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| show | The light-sensitive inner surface of the eye, containing the receptor rods and cones plus layers of neurons that begin the processing of visual information.
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| show | The sharpness of vision.
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| show | A condition in which nearby objects are seen more clearly than distant objects because distant objects focus in front of the retina.
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| show | A condition in which faraway objects are seen more clearly than near objects because the image of near objects is focused behind the retina.
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| Rods | show 🗑
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| Cones | show 🗑
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| Optic nerve | show 🗑
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| show | The point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye, creating a "blind" spot because no receptor cells are located there.
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| show | The central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's cones cluster.
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| show | Nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle, or movement.
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| show | The processing of several aspects of a problem simultaneously; the brain's natural mode of information processing for many functions, including vision. Contrasts with the step-by-step (serial) processing of most computers and of conscious problem solving.
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| show | The theory that the retina contains three different color receptors - one most sensitive to red, one to green, one to blue - which when stimulated in combination can produce the perception of any color.
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| show | The theory that opposing retinal processes (red-green, yellow-blue, white-black) enable color vision. For example, some cells are stimulated by green and inhibited by red, others are stimulated by red and inhibited by green.
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| show | Percieving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelengths reflected by the object.
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| show | The sense of hearing.
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| show | The number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time (for example, per second).
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| Pitch | show 🗑
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| show | The chamber between the eardrum and cochlea containing three tiny bones (Hammer, Anvil, and Stirrup) that concentrate the vibrations of the eardrum on the cochlea's oval window.
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| Inner ear | show 🗑
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| Cochlea [KOHK-lee-uh] | show 🗑
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| Place theory | show 🗑
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| Frequency theory | show 🗑
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| show | Hearing loss caused by damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea.
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| show | Hearing loss caused by damage to the cochlea's receptor cells or to the auditory nerves; also called nerve deafness.
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| Gate-control theory | show 🗑
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| show | The principle that one sense may influence another, as when the smell of food influences its taste.
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| Kinesthesis [kin-ehs-THEE-sehs] | show 🗑
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| Vestibular sense | show 🗑
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