Psych 202 Exam 2 Study Guide Questions And 100% Actual Answers.
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Psych 202
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absolute threshold - Answer the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time
Which of the following are the three ossicles of the middle ear? - Answer malleus, incus, and stapes
subliminal treshold - Answer messages that are below the threshold fo...
Psych 202 Exam 2 Study Guide
Questions And 100% Actual Answers.
absolute threshold - Answer the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50
percent of the time
Which of the following are the three ossicles of the middle ear? - Answer malleus, incus, and stapes
subliminal treshold - Answer messages that are below the threshold for conscious awareness
similarity - Answer Objects that are similar in appearance are more likely to be perceived as belonging
in the same group.
Closure - Answer we fill in gaps to create a complete, whole object
trichromatic theory - Answer theory of color vision that proposes three types of cones: red, blue, and
green
opponent-process theory - Answer the theory that opposing retinal processes (red-green, yellow-blue,
white-black) enable color vision.
congenital analgesia - Answer inability to feel pain
Sensation - Answer Stimulation of Senses
Transduction - Answer converting outside stimuli into neural activity
Bottom-up processing - Answer build perception by sensation by sensation
, top-down processing - Answer the use of preexisting knowledge to organize individual features into a
unified whole
sensory adaptation - Answer Constant stimulation of a sense can produce adaptation (ex: putting on
socks and not feeling them throughout the day.)
Müller-Lyer illusion - Answer illusion of line length that is distorted by inward-turning or outward-
turning corners on the ends of the lines, causing lines of equal length to appear to be different
Frequency - Answer number of waves that pass a given point in a given time period
pitch - Answer the frequency of the sound wave
Cornea - Answer The clear tissue that covers the front of the eye
Iris - Answer color part of the eye
pupil - Answer like a hallway (inverts the picture)
Retina - Answer the light-sensitive inner surface of the eye, containing the receptor rods and cones plus
layers of neurons that begin the processing of visual information
Fovea - Answer the central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's cones cluster
optic nerve - Answer the nerve that carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain
Photoreceptors - Answer respond to light
depth perception - Answer the ability to see objects in three dimensions; judges distance
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