Across
- 1. height of wave, measuring the loudness of sound
- 6. sends impulses to specific regions in the thalamus
- 8. cells that are activated by color and black and white
- 9. objects close together tend to be perceived as being in the same group
- 10. length of wave, measuring the pitch of sound
- 11. objects that look alike tend to be perceived as being in the same group
- 12. something going wrong with the system of conducting sound to the cochela
- 13. process of understanding sensations
- 16. inability to see either red/green or blue/yellow
- 17. vibrations in the air
- 18. theory stating we have cones detecting blue, red, and green
- 21. keeping an object’s volume in mind as it moves closer or further
- 22. optic nerve leaves the retina and has no rods or cones
- 25. a predisposition to perceiving something in a certain way
- 27. ability to maintain a continuous perception of an object
- 28. change must be proportional to stimuli to notice difference
- 29. using what is given to us as building blocks to perceive something
- 32. researcher that studied when human infants develop ability to perceive depth
- 33. message perceived but stimuli is below absolute threshold
- 36. theory stating sensory receptors arranged in the retina come in pairs
- 43. sensation and perception of sound waves
- 45. theory stating that hair cells sense upper range of pitches, but not lower
- 47. curved and flexible that focuses light
- 50. perception to see the third dimension in objects instead of them being flat
- 51. seeing the opposite of a specific color, i.e. green-red
- 52. using beforehand experiences when perceiving something
- 54. keeping an object’s color in mind as light reflecting off it changes
- 56. we tend to perceive images in groups instead of individually
- 58. activation of stimuli to eyes, ears, nose, etc.
- 59. feedback about position and orientation of specific body parts in space
- 60. deals with inverted images when focused
- 61. transformation of stimuli into neural impulses
Down
- 2. theory stating that hair cells in cochlea react to different frequencies
- 3. discovered that groups of neurons in visual cortex react to different types of visual images
- 4. objects that form a chain tend to be perceived as being in the same group
- 5. protective covering over eye where light first enters
- 7. objects that form a recognizable image tend to be perceived as being in the same group
- 10. neurons assign priority and decide what is important
- 12. hearing a lot of noise but focusing on one conversation
- 14. minimal amount of stimuli necessary to detect something
- 15. how our body is oriented in space
- 19. snail shell shape filled with fluid in the ear
- 20. minimal change to determine difference between stimuli
- 23. indentation at center of retina containing highest concentration of cones
- 24. he created the law explaining change needed in JND is proportional
- 26. helps explain how we experience pain
- 30. gathering energy in the form of light, sound, and pressure
- 31. perception of sensations due to how focused we are on them
- 34. getting use to a feeling and no longer perceiving it
- 35. keeping an object’s form in mind as we view it from different angles
- 37. dilates to either let more or less light in
- 38. lobe in the furthest back of brain dealing with vision
- 39. states the effects of distractions while we are perceiving the world
- 40. perception of chemical senses when eating
- 41. gathering chemicals through taste and smell senses
- 42. two different theories describing the process of hearing pitch
- 44. helped Ernst Weber in creating Weber’s law
- 46. hair cells in the cochlea are damaged
- 48. discovered that groups of neurons in visual cortex react to different types of visual images
- 49. light on the electromagnetic spectrum that the human eye is able to perceive
- 53. used to acquire information of one’s surroundings
- 55. activation of sense when our skin experiences a change
- 57. dependent on chemicals emitted by substances