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32 Cards in this Set
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The area of a retina that effects firing of a cell |
Receptive field |
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How do red, green, and blue light differ? |
Red Cones: Long |
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As people age, the lens of the eye loses what? |
The ability to accommodate (when the curvature of the lens adjusts to alter visual focus) |
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The amount of light entering the eye is regulated by? |
The Pupil |
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Night and Peripheal vision: |
Rods |
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A color theory that states that our visual system interprets information about color by processing signals from cones and rods in an antagonistic manner. |
Opponent Process |
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Theory that states human eye has three types of receptors with differing sensitivities to different light wavelengths. Eyes mix three colors for us. |
Tri -Chromatic Theory |
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Sensory system breaks down stimuli's features and processes the information |
Feature Analysis |
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Neurons that respond selectively to very specific features of more complex stimuli |
Feature Detectors |
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Whole to the elements |
Top-Down Processing |
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Individual elements to a whole |
Bottom-Up Processing |
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Gestalt Principles are what? |
People unify elements |
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Two vertical lines equal |
Muller-Lyer Illusion |
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Fluid filled, coiled tunnel that contains the receptors for hearing. Inner ear. |
Cochlea |
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Membrane runs length of the spinal cochlea, holds the auditory receptors, called hair cells. Fluid in ear stimulate hair cells which convert this to neural impulses |
Basilar Cells |
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20th century movement in art where geometric shapes, interlocking planes, were used. |
Cubism |
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Brings info from the body's periphery toward the brain. Used to detect pain. |
Free nerve endings |
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Make a large request that's rejected then a smaller one that's likely to be acccepted |
Door in the Face technique |
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Things being more or less different than they actually are |
Contrast Effects |
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Selective awareness of external stimuli |
Consciousness, attention |
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Structure in the hypothalamus that sends signals to the Pineal gland, which secretes melatonin |
Suprachiasmatic nucleus |
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13-24 Frequency. Normal, Alert. |
Beta waves |
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8-12 Frequency. Deep relaxation, blank mind. |
Alpha waves |
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Less than 4 frequency. Deep sleep. |
Delta waves |
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Frequent, reflexive gasping for air that awakens a person and disrupts sleep |
Sleep apnea |
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Sleepwalking |
Somnambulism |
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Dreams happen when the cortex constructs a story to make sense of internal signals from lower brain centers |
Activation Synthesis Model of Dreaming |
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Splitting off of mental processes into two seperate, simultaneous streams of awareness |
Dissociation theory of hypnosis |
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Symptoms people go through when quitting a drug |
Withdrawal |
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Progressive decrease in a person's responsiveness to a drug |
Tolerance |
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Physical and psychological reliance on a drug |
Dependency |
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Hidden or disguised meaning of the events in the plot |
Psychoanalyst latent content of the dream |