Chapter 4 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. Our sense of equilibrium or balance
  2. 9. The process of converting an external energy or substance into electrical activity within neurons
  3. 10. A condition in which people experience cross modal sensations
  4. 13. Ability to judge distance and three dimensional relations
  5. 15. Part of the eye that changes curvature to keep images in focus
  6. 19. Circular hole through which light enters the eye
  7. 21. Process of selecting one sensory channel and ignoring or minimizing others
  8. 22. Processing in which a whole is constructed from parts
  9. 23. Part of the eye containing transparent cells that focus light on the retina
  10. 25. The process by which we perceive stimuli consistently across varied conditions
  11. 28. The study of how we perceive sensory stimuli based on their physical characteristics
  12. 33. Lowest level of a stimulus needed for the nervous system to detect a change 50 percent of the time
  13. 34. Membrane at the back of the eye responsible for converting light into neural activity
  14. 36. Conceptually driven processing influenced by beliefs and expectations
  15. 38. The smallest change in the intensity of a stimulus that we can detect
  16. 41. Receptor cells in the retina allowing us to see in low levels of light
  17. 42. Tissue containing the half cells necessary for hearing
  18. 43. Stimuli that enable us to judge depth using only one eye
  19. 44. There is a constant proportional relationship between the JND and original stimulus intensity
  20. 45. The brain’s interpretation of raw sensory inputs
Down
  1. 2. Stimuli that enable us to judge depth using both eyes
  2. 3. Activation is greatest when a stimulus is first detected
  3. 4. Our sense of hearing
  4. 5. Complexity of quality of sound that makes musical instruments, human voices, or other sources sound unique
  5. 6. The ability to attend to many sense modalities simultaneously
  6. 7. Cell that detects lines and edges
  7. 8. Central portion of the retina
  8. 11. Our sense of taste
  9. 12. Ideas that color vision is based on our sensitivity to three primary colors
  10. 14. Our sense of smell
  11. 16. Detection of physical energy by sense organs, which then send information to the brain
  12. 17. Theory that we perceive colors in terms of three pairs of opponents: either red or green, blue or yellow, or black or white
  13. 18. Bony, spiral shaped sense organ used for hearing
  14. 20. Failure to detect stimuli that are in plain sight when our attention is pointed elsewhere
  15. 24. Theory regarding how stimuli are detected under different conditions
  16. 25. Our sense of body position
  17. 26. Receptor cells in the retina allowing us to see in color
  18. 27. Sense receptor in the tongue that responds to sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami, and perhaps fat
  19. 29. Idea that pain is blocked or gated from consciousness by neural mechanisms in spinal cord
  20. 30. Time in dark before rods regain maximum light sensitivity
  21. 31. Color of light
  22. 32. Our sense of touch, temperature, and pain
  23. 33. Changing the shape of the lens to focus on objects near or far
  24. 35. Membrane Membrane supporting the organ of corti and half cells in the cochlea
  25. 37. Set formed when expectations influence perceptions
  26. 39. Nerve that travels from the retina to the brain
  27. 40. Specific place along the basilar membrane matches a tone with a specific pitch