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3. The study of how physical stimuli are translated into psychological experience
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4. What is Psychophysics?
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5. Answer The process by which sense organs convert
energy from environmental events into neural activity
eventually ending up in the brain.
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6. What is Transduction?
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7. Senses are most responsive to increases and decreases, and to new events rather than to ongoing, unchanging stimulation
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8. What Sensory Adaptation?
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9. This tiny area is responsible for our central, sharpest vision.
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10. What is the Fovea?
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11. The white part of your eye is known as
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12. What is the Sclera?
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13. Light -> rods and cones -> neural signals -> ________-> ganglion cells -> optic nerve -> optic chiasm -> opposite half brain ->
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14. What is the Bipolar cells?
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15. This is a clear gel which occupies the posterior compartment of the eye, located between the crystalline lens and the retina
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16. What is the Vitreous Humor?
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17. perception of brightness is determined by
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perception of brightness is determined by
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18. What is Amplitude?
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19. Young and Helmholtz theory about color: Receptors for red, green, blue – color mixing
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20. What is Trichromatic?
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21. Discovered feature detectors: neurons that respond selectively to lines, edges, etc.
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22. Who are Hubel & Wiesel?
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23. Not only does the visual system receive two images but there is also a difference between the images on the retinas
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24. What is Retinal disparity?
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25. This is determined by the amplitude, or height, of sound waves
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26. What is Loudness?
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27. This is the number of cycles completed by a sound wave in 1 second.
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28. What is the Pitch?
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29. The three tiny bones–the hammer, anvil, and stirrup.
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30. What are the Ossicles?
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31. When the bones of the middle ear become rigid and cannot carry sounds inward.
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32. What is Conduction Deafness
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33. Movement of fluid through the tubes stimulate the hair cells giving information about the movement & balance .
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34. What is the Vestibular Sense?
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35. Perception of pitch corresponds to vibration of different portions, or places, along the basilar membrane
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36. What is the Place Theory
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37. We can lessen some pains by shifting our attention away from the pain impulses or by sending other signals to compete with the pain signals
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38. What is the Gate Control Theory?
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39. The partial blocking of a more distant object by a nearer object
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40. What is Interposition?
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41. The process by which your eyes turn inward to look at nearby objects.
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42. What is Convergence?
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43. This is the actual stimulation of sense organs.
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44. What is sensation?
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45. The selection, organization, and interpretation of sensory input.
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46. What is perception?
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47. This is the minimum stimulus intensity that an organism can detect 50% of the time.
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48. What is absolute threshold?
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49. Daily Double!!!
This law states that the size of a just noticeable difference is a constant proportion of the size of the initial stimulus.
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50. What is Weber’s Law?
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51. This proposes that the detection of stimuli involves decision processes as well as sensory processes. The criterion you set for how confident you want to feel before reporting a signal will affect your responding.
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52. What is the signal detection theory?
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53. State of Conscious- ness
The Sense Of
Sight
The Sense Of
Hearing
The Other
Senses
State of Conscious- ness
Sleep and
Dreaming
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54. This is the crystalline, transparent eye structure that focuses the light rays falling on the retina.
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55. What is the lens?
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56. These are specialized visual receptors that play a key role in daylight vision and color vision.
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57. What are cones?
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58. This is a hole in the retina where the optic nerve fibers exit the eye.
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59. What is the blind spot?
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60. These specialized visual receptors play a key role in night vision and peripheral vision.
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61. What are rods?
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62. This psychology is based on the theory that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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63. What is Gestalt Psychology?
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64. Measured in Hertz, wavelengths of sound are described in terms of this.
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65. What is frequency?
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66. Amplitude of sound, or its loudness, is measured in this.
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67. What are decibels?
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68. Daily Double!!!
The inner ear consists largely of this, a fluid-filled, coiled tunnel that contains the receptors for hearing.
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69. What is the cochlea?
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70. This runs the length of the cochlea and holds the auditory receptors.
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71. What is the basilar membrane?
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72. These are the three main divisions of the ear.
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73. What are the inner, middle, and external ear?
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74. The gustatory system is the sensory system for this.
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75. What is taste or taste and smell together?
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76. These are the four primary tastes.
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77. What are bitter, sweet, salty, and sour?
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78. This is the only sense that does not send neural impulses to the brain through the thalamus.
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79. What is Smell?
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80. These are the two chemical senses.
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81. What are taste and smell?
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82. Our sense of balance depends on activity in this system.
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83. What is the Vestibular System?
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84. Our awareness of ourselves and our environment
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85. What is Consciousness?
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86. False sensory experience, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus
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87. What are Hallucinations?
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88. Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep
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89. What is Insomnia?
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90. This psychologist saw dreams as wish fulfillment, shaping dreams that satisfy unconscious needs.
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91. Who is Freud?
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92. The discomfort and distress that follows, discontinuing the use of an addictive drug
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93. What is Withdrawal?
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94. The systematic procedure that typically produces a heightened state of suggestibility.
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95. What is hypnosis?
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96. The 24-hour biological cycle found in humans and other species.
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97. What is the circadian rhythm?
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98. This hormone that is released by the pineal gland plays a key role in adjusting biological clocks.
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99. What is melatonin?
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100. Daily Double!!!
These are brief muscular contractions that occur as people fall asleep. They generally occur during stage 1 drowsiness.
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101. What are hypnic jerks?
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102. The part of the hindbrain that is critical to the generation of REM sleep.
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103. What is the pons?
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104. Progresses from individual elements to whole elements
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Progresses from individual elements to whole elements
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105. What is Bottom-Up Processing?