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| What occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor |
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| The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences |
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| The study of the relationships between sensory experiences and the physical stimuli that cause them |
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| The weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half the time |
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| The smallest change in a physical stimulus that can be detected half the time |
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| The principle that for any change in a stimulus to be detected, a constant proportion of that stimulus must be added or subtracted |
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| The study of people's tendencies to make correct judgments in detecting the presences of stimuli |
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| Method for extracting information automatically and simultaneously when presented with stimuli. |
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| Procedure that considered one part of stimuli presented at a time. |
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| The opening in the iris that regulates the amount of light entering the eye |
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| A flexible, elastic, transparent structure in the eye that changes its shape to focus light on the retina |
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| The innermost coating of the back of the eye, containing the light-sensitive receptor cells |
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| The nerve that carries impulses from the retina to the brain |
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| The process of combining the images received from the two eyes into a sing, fused image |
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| The differences between the images stimulating each eye |
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| The nerve that carries impulses from the inner ear to the brain, resulting in the perception of sound |
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| Three semicircular canals that provide the sense of balance, located in the inner ear and connected to the rain by a nerve |
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| The nerve that carries smell impulses from the nose to the brain |
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| The sense of movement and body position |
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| The experience that comes from organizing bits and pieces of information into meaningful wholes |
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| Brief auditory or visual messages that are presented below the absolute threshold |
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| The apparent movement of stationary objects relative to one another that occurs when the observer changes position. |
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| The tendency to perceive certain objects in the same way regardless of changing angle, distance, or lighting. |
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| Perceptions that misrepresent physical stimuli |
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| Perceptions that misrepresent physical stimuli |
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| Extrasensory perception (ESP) |
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| An ability to gain information by some means other than the ordinary senses |
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