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