Sensation and Perception 2022

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