Myers Psychology Unit 4 Vocabulary
For psychology class
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- the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment
- the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events
- the study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity
- face blindness
- the adjustable opening in the center of the eye through which light enters
- the transparent structure behind the pupil that changes shape to help focus images on the retina
- the sense or act of hearing
- in hearing, the theory that links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea's membrane is stimulated
- hearing loss caused by damage to the cochlea's receptor cells or to the auditory nerves; also called nerve deafness
- an organized whole. .. psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes
- the system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts
- a laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals
- perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelengths reflected by the o
- the activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response
- the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus
- the dimension of color that is determined by the wavelength of light; what we know as the color names blue, green and so forth
- retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray; necessary for peripheral and twilight vision, when cones don't response
- the theory that opposing retinal processes (red-green, yellow-blue, white-black) enable color vision.
- a coiled bony fluid-filled tube in the inner ear through which sound waves trigger nerve impulses
- diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation
- failing to notice changes in the environment
- a ring of muscle tissue that forms the colored portion of the eye around the pupil and controls the size of the pupil opening
- the central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's .. cluster
- the innermost part of the ear
- the sense of body movement and position, sense of balance
- the principle that one sense may influence another, as when the smell of food influences its taste
- the organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings
- a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another
- cues, such as interposition and linear perspective, available to either eye alone
- a tone's experienced highness or lowness, ..
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