Unit 3 & 4: Senses & Perception Vocab:

Sensation

Perception

Absolute Threshold

Accommodation

Acuity

Audition

Amacrine Cells

Ambiguity

Attention

Auditory Cortex

Auditory Nerve

Basilar Membrane

Binocular Cue

Bipolar Cells

Blind spot

Bottom-up Processing

Brightness

Cochlea

Cochlear Implant

Color Constancy

Complementary Colors

Cones

Convergence

Cutaneous Senses

Dark Adaptation

Depth Perception

Dichotic Listening

Difference Threshold

Distal Stimuli

ESP

Farsightedness

Feature Detectors

Figure/Ground

Fovea

Frequency Theory

Ganglion Cells

Gate-Control Theory

Gestalt psychology

Goal Directed Selection

Grouping

Ground

Hearing Loss (Conduction)

(Sensorineural)

Horizontal Cells

Hue

Identification and recognition

Inner Ear

Intensity

Inattentional blindness

Illusion

Iris

Lens

Just Noticeable Difference (JND)

Kinesthetic Sense

Lightness Constancy

Loudness

Middle Ear

Monocular cue

Nearsightedness

Nuerotransmitters

Olfactory Bulb

Opponent-Processes theory

Optic nerve

Pain

Parallel Processing

Parapsychology

Perception

Perceptual Constancy

Perceptual Organization

Perceptual Set

Pheromones

Phi Phenomenon

Photoreceptors

Pitch

Place Theory

Proximal Stimulus

Psychometric Function

Psychophysics

Receptive Field

Relative Motion Parallax

Response Bias

Retina

Retinal Disparity

Rods

Saturation

Selective attention

Sensation

Sensory Adaptation

Sensory Receptors

Set

Shape Constancy

Signal Detection Theory (SDT)

Size Constancy

Sound Location

Stimulus-Driven Capture

subliminal

Timbre

Top-Down processing

Transduction

Trichromatic Theory (Also Known as the Young-Helmholtz Theory)

Visual capture

Visual Cliff

Vestibular Sense

Visual Cortex

Volley Principle

Weber’s Law

 Synaptic Peptides

Absolute thresholds

JND

Response Bias

Amplitude

Additive color

Subtractive color

Flavor

 Additive Colors

 Subtractive Colors