Review for Sensation & Perception Exam!

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Across
  1. 2. this guy's law is related to difference thresholds
  2. 5. a cochlear implant is not likely to help someone with ___ hearing loss
  3. 8. according to ___-control theory, large-fiber activity in the spinal cord can prevent pain signals from reaching the brain
  4. 9. you can recognize an object's color, shape, and size all at once because of ___ processing
  5. 10. initiate neural impulses that lead to the sensation of pain
  6. 13. the Young-Helmholtz theory holds that the retina has this many kinds of color receptors
  7. 15. when the lens changes shape to focus images on the retina
  8. 16. when you don't see the gorilla crossing the screen because you're focused on the basketball players, it's ___ blindness
  9. 18. the study of phenomena like ESP and clairvoyance is called ___psychology
  10. 20. the activation, often unconsciously, of associations that predispose you to a certain response
  11. 21. a ___ message is beneath your awareness threshold
  12. 23. like a stereotype, a ___ set is a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another
  13. 27. refers to the system for sensing body position and movement
Down
  1. 1. the process by which physical stimuli are converted into into neural messages
  2. 3. ganglion cells' axons converge to form the ___ nerve
  3. 4. the brain releases these hormones that soothe pain
  4. 6. this theory of hearing links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea's membrane is stimulated
  5. 7. these receptors detect smells
  6. 11. a cue for depth perception because an object that obstructs another object appears closer to us
  7. 12. nerve cells in the visual cortex that fire in response to specific edges, lines & angles are called ___ detectors
  8. 14. the opponent-___ theory explains why you see a red afterimage of a green object
  9. 17. this sense impacts your ability to detect whether your body is vertical or horizontal
  10. 19. a 3-D movie is trying to simulate the phenomenon of ___ disparity
  11. 20. this phenomenon makes it look like adjacent blinking lights are moving back and forth
  12. 22. the ___ dilates to allow more light to reach the retina
  13. 24. perceptual ___ is related to principles of continuity and closure
  14. 25. paying attention to only 1 voice at a time is the ___ party effect
  15. 26. movement of hair cells along this membrane helps transmit neural messages to the auditory cortex