Unit 3 review

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Across
  1. 2. Trichromatic theory of color vision: said 3 types of color receptors in the eye
  2. 5. Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere
  3. 6. In hearing, the theory that links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea's membrane is stimulated
  4. 9. The theory that the spinal cord contains a neurological "gate" that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain
  5. 11. The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time
Down
  1. 1. The ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory inputs
  2. 3. The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enables us to recognize meaningful objects and events
  3. 4. The way our senses adjust to different stimuli
  4. 7. The tendency to perceive objects, or figures, as existing on a background
  5. 8. The principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage (rather than a constant amount)
  6. 10. An organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful holes
  7. 12. The use of preexisting knowledge to organize individual features into a unified whole