Sensation

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Across
  1. 1. Nerves involved in the chemical senses, respond to chemicals rather than energy.
  2. 6. Every object we see changes minutely from moment to moment due to our changing angle of vision, variations in light, and so on.
  3. 7. Describes the difference thresholds for different sense. The change needed is proportional to the original intensity of the stimulus.
  4. 8. The smallest amount of change needed in a stimulus before we detect a change.
  5. 11. Investigates the effects of distractions and inferences we perceive while experiencing the world.
  6. 12. Sound waves, vibrations in the air, travel through the air, and are then collected by our ears.
  7. 13. Tells us about how our body is oriented in space.
  8. 14. Explains how we experience pain. Some pain messages have a higher priority than others. When a high-priority message is sent, the ____ swings open for it and shut for low priority messages.
  9. 15. We perceive objects as being a constant color even as the light reflecting off the object changes.
  10. 16. Instead of using our experience to perceive an object, we use only the features of the object itself to build a complete perception.
  11. 17. Objects viewed from different angles will produce different shapes on our retinas.
  12. 19. Smallest amount of stimulus we can perceive.
  13. 20. When we use this, we perceive by filling in gaps in what we sense. Occurs when you use your background knowledge to fill in gaps in what you perceive.
  14. 23. Molecules of substances rise into the air and are drawn into our nose.
  15. 24. Objects closer to our eyes will produce bigger images on our retinas, but we take distance in into account in our estimations of ____.
Down
  1. 2. Stimuli below our absolute threshold.
  2. 3. Vibrations in the air that have amplitude and frequency. They travel through the air and are collected by our ear.
  3. 4. Deafness Occurs when the hair cells in the cochlea have been damaged, usually by loud noise.
  4. 5. A color vision theory that states that the sensory receptors arranged in the retina come in pairs: red/green, yellow/blue, black/white.
  5. 9. Rules Based on observation that we normally perceive images as groups (e.g. proximity, similarity, continuity, closure), not as isolated elements.
  6. 10. Give us feedback about the position and orientation of specific body parts.
  7. 18. Theories that explain how we hear different ______ or tones. Includes Place Theory and Frequency Theory.
  8. 20. This is activated when our skin is indented, pierced or experiences a change in temperature.
  9. 21. Our experience creates schemata, mental representations of how we expect the world to be.
  10. 22. Where the process of transduction occurs.