Topics of this game:
- Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes as we construct perceptions, drawing on our experience and expectations.
- Analysis of the stimulus begins with the sense receptors and works up to the level of the brain and mind.
- Reasoning from specific cases to general cases, typically employed by children during their development.
- Predicts how and when we detect the presence of a faint stimulus (signal) amid background noise (other stimulation). SDT assumes there is no signal.
- Minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time
- Minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50% of the time, also called just noticeable difference (JND).
- A small depression in the central portion of the retina in which retinal cone cells are most concentrated and an image is focused most clearly
- The ability to detect certain types of stimuli, like movements, shape, and angles, requires specialized cells in the brain
- The use of both eyes and refers to the difference between the view that each eye receives of a given object or scene
- A sturdy surface that is flat but has the appearance of a several-foot drop part-way across
- Theory states that within your eye are tiny cells that can receive waves of light and translate them into one of three colors: blue, green, and red
- That one member of the color pair suppresses the other color
- Hearing that states that our perception of sound depends on where each component frequency produces vibrations along the basilar membrane
- Temporal theory of hearing states that human perception of sound depends on temporal patterns with which neurons respond to sound in the cochlea
- Mechanism, in the spinal cord, in which pain signals can be sent up to the brain to be processed to accentuate the possible perceived pain, or attenu
- Sensory system that creates the sense of balance and spatial orientation for the purpose of coordinating movement with balance
- When you're presented with a set of ambiguous or complex objects, your brain will make them appear as simple as possible
- The human eye prefers to see complete shapes. If the visual elements are not complete, the user can perceive a complete shape by filling in missing vi
- Simple shapes arranged together can create a more complex image
- Things that are seen as similar on some other dimension are seen as being together
- Things that occur at the same or nearby times are seen as being together
- The ability to continue on the same way continuously indefinitely
