Vocab Theories & Laws Anatomical Structures Other Senses Perceptual Organization $100 $500 $400 $300 $200

Topic 1 - $100 What is an analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain’s integration and sensory information?

Topic 1 - $100 What is bottom-up processing.

Topic 1 - $200 What is the minimum stimulation required to detect a particular stimulus?

Topic 1 - $200 What is absolute threshold

Topic 1 - $300 What is the retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray; Necessary for peripheral and twilight vision, when the other kinds of receptors don’t respond.

Topic 1 - $300 What are Rods.

Topic 1 - $400 What is the conversion of one form of energy into another. In sensation, the transforming of stimulus energies (sounds, sights, smells, etc.) into neural impulses our brains can interpret

Topic 1 - $400 What is Transduction

Topic 1 - $500 What is the point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye, creating “blind” areas because no receptor cells are located there.

Topic 1 - $500 What is Blind Spot

Topic 2 - $100 What is Weber’s Law

Topic 2 - $100 What is the principle that to be perceived as different two stimuli must differ by a constant percentage.

Topic 2 - $200 Trichromatic Theory states?

Topic 2 - $200 What is cones contain three different color receptors: red, blue, and green.

Topic 2 - $300 What theory states that opposing processes occur within the eye to enable color vision?

Topic 2 - $300 What is opposing process theory

Topic 2 - $400 What is the theory that the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone, thus enabling us to sense pitch

Topic 2 - $400 What is Frequency Theory

Topic 2 - $500 What theory states that the spinal cord contains a neurological “gate” that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain.

Topic 2 - $500 What is Gate- Control Theory

Topic 3 - $100 Which anatomical structure does light pass through primarily in order to hit the iris?

Topic 3 - $100 What is Cornea.

Topic 3 - $200 Which structure of the eye do the cones cluster in and around to maintain focus?

Topic 3 - $200 What is Fovea.

Topic 3 - $300 What is the name of the structure that has multilayered tissue on the eyeball’s sensitive inner surface.

Topic 3 - $300 What is the Retina

Topic 3 - $400 Where is the Basilar Membrane located within the Ear?

Topic 3 - $400 Where is Cochlea

Topic 3 - $500 What are the name’s of the Ossicles?

Topic 3 - $500 What is Malleus, incus, and stapes. (Hammer, Anvil, and Stirrup)

Topic 4 - $100 What is your sense of the position and movement of your body parts called?

Topic 4 - $100 What is kinesthesis.

Topic 4 - $200 What is the vestibular sense?

Topic 4 - $200 What is your sense of balance.

Topic 4 - $300 What kind of indication would spawn from something sweet?

Topic 4 - $300 What is an energy source.

Topic 4 - $400 Smell + Texture + _________ = Flavor

Topic 4 - $400 What is taste.

Topic 4 - $500 Smell and Taste are processed in what lobe of the brain?

Topic 4 - $500 What is Temporal.

Topic 5 - $100 This image is an example of

Topic 5 - $100 What is a Gestalt

Topic 5 - $200 What is it called when humans fill in gaps to create a complete, whole object– we assume that the image is complete but partially blocked by the illusory image.

Topic 5 - $200 What is closure.

Topic 5 - $300 The ability to see objects in three dimensions, although the image strikes the retina in two dimensions is called?

Topic 5 - $300 What is Depth Perception.

Topic 5 - $400 When perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelength, what is occurring?

Topic 5 - $400 What is color constancy.

Topic 5 - $500 Schema Rationales organize what kind of information in a organized and coherent form.

Topic 5 - $500 What is Knowledge.