ability to pay attention to only one voice at a time
The minimum amount of stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time
After listening to your high-volume car stereo for 15 minutes, you fail to realize how loudly the music is blasting. This best illustrates
Trying to see a hidden representational image in a piece of abstract art by looking carefully at each element in the picture and trying to form an image employs which kind of perceptual process?
emphasizes that personal expectations and motivations influence the level of absolute thresholds
Which receptor cells are the most light sensitive?
The coiled, fluid-filled tube in which sound waves trigger nerve impulses
In what part of the brain are feature detectors located?
Theory that presumes the brain determines a sound's pitch by recognizing the specific place on the basilar membrane that is generating the neural signal
Decreased visual acuity would likely indicate damage to what part of the eye?
When ice-cold water passes through one coil and comfortably warm water through another, how do we perceive the combined sensation?
Which theory suggests that large-fiber activity in the spinal cord can prevent pain signals from reaching the brain?
sensory receptor that sends signals that cause the perception of pain to the brain and spinal cord
monitors your head's and body's position and movement and associated with sense of balance
Important sensors in your joints, tendons, bones, and ears enable your sense of the position and movements of your body parts, known as___.
The sense of smell is known as
Name the 5 types of taste.
Taste and smell are both what kind of senses?
The area of the brain that receives information from the nose is directly connected with the limbic system. This connection may explain why smells are often involved in ___?
principle that one sense may influence another, as when the smell of food influences its taste
the process by which we select, organize, and interpret sensory information in order to recognize meaningful objects and events
The study of phenomena such as clairvoyance and telepathy
When two adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession, we perceive a single light moving back and forth between them. This is known as
A binocular cue for perceiving depth or distance
The tendency to perceive a moving light in the night sky as belonging to an airplane rather than a satellite best illustrates the impact of __?
cocktail party effect
absolute threshold
sensory adaptation
bottom-up processing
signal detection theory
rods
cochlea
occipital lobe
place theory
fovea
burning hot
gate-control theory
nociceptors
vestibular sense
Kinesthesis
olfaction
sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami
chemical
vivid memories
sensory interaction
perception
parapsychology
phi phenomenon
retinal disparity
perceptual set
