Sensation & Perception

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Across
  1. 1. _____clarity: Monocular cue. Hazy objects are farther away.
  2. 4. Chemical signals for communication.
  3. 7. Gestalt concept. Grouping nearby figures.
  4. 12. _____and ground: Gestalt concept. Distinguishing objects from background.
  5. 14. _____ threshold: Minimum stimulation needed to detect a stimulus 50% of the time.
  6. 16. Light-sensitive inner eye surface with receptor cells.
  7. 17. _____canals: Inner ear canals for balance.
  8. 20. _____depth cues: Depth cues using both eyes.
  9. 21. _____perception: Ability to perceive sound frequency.
  10. 23. Eyes converging inward for depth.
  11. 24. Height of a wave.
  12. 25. _____attention: Focusing on a particular stimulus.
  13. 29. _____nerve: Carries impulses from the eye to the brain.
  14. 30. _____theory: Pitch linked to specific hairs in the Cochlea.
  15. 31. _____set: Predisposition to perceive certain things.
  16. 32. Partial color blindness.
  17. 35. Gestalt concept. Grouping similar figures.
  18. 36. _____ adaptation: Reduced sensitivity from constant stimulation.
  19. 39. _____depth cues: Depth cues for one eye.
  20. 40. _____control theory: Spinal cord “gate” blocks/allows pain signals.
  21. 42. _____blindness: Missing visible objects when focused elsewhere.
  22. 43. Detect black, white, gray; for low light.
  23. 45. Clearer vision for nearby objects.
  24. 47. _____size: Monocular cue. maller images are farther away.
  25. 48. _____spot: Point where the optic nerve leaves the eye; no receptors.
  26. 49. Sensory control center in the brain.
  27. 54. Lens changes shape to focus on objects.
  28. 55. Focusing awareness.
  29. 56. Perceived highness or lowness of a tone.
  30. 58. _____disparity: Depth from comparing retinal images.
  31. 59. Gestalt concept. Completing incomplete figures.
  32. 60. Clearer vision for distant objects.
  33. 61. _____theory: Three color receptors (red, green, blue).
Down
  1. 2. Monocular cue. Closer objects block farther ones.
  2. 3. _____’s law: Two stimuli must differ by a constant percentage to be perceived as different.
  3. 5. Responding to visual stimuli without conscious experience.
  4. 6. Distance between wave peaks.
  5. 8. Visual images persisting after stimulus removal.
  6. 9. organizing and interpreting sensory information to understand the environment.
  7. 10. Sense of taste.
  8. 11. _____deafness: Hearing loss from cochlea or nerve damage.
  9. 13. Inability to recognize faces.
  10. 15. _____-process theory: Opposing retinal processes enable color vision.
  11. 18. Focuses images on the retina.
  12. 19. Framework organizing information.
  13. 22. _____deafness: Hearing loss from mechanical system damage.
  14. 23. _____ party effect: Focusing on one voice in a crowd.
  15. 26. _____perspective: Monocular cue. Parallel lines converging with distance.
  16. 27. _____-down processing: Perceptions from experiences (brain) to body.
  17. 28. _____gradient: Monocular cue. Coarse to fine texture signals distance.
  18. 33. _____system: Sense of smell.
  19. 34. Sense of body part movement.
  20. 37. One sense perceived as multiple senses.
  21. 38. _____blindness: Missing changes in the environment when vision is interrupted.
  22. 39. Complete color blindness.
  23. 41. Converting stimulus energies into neural impulses.
  24. 44. Perceiving whole forms out of parts
  25. 46. Detecting physical energy and encoding it as neural signals.
  26. 50. _____-up processing: Perception from Sensory receptors to brain.
  27. 51. Detect color and detail; for bright light.
  28. 52. _____theory: Pitch caused by all hairs in Cochlea moving together.
  29. 53. _____sense: Sense of balance and body position.
  30. 57. _____interaction: One sense influencing another.