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- Q1Process where stimulation of a sensory receptor gives rise to neural impulses that result in an experience, or awareness of, conditions inside or outside the bodySensation30sEditDelete
- Q2The minimum amount of energy needed to produce a sensationAbsolute Threshold30sEditDelete
- Q3The smallest difference between two sensations that allows them to be discriminatedJust Noticeable Difference (JND)30sEditDelete
- Q4perception of sensory stimuli, which involves interaction of physical, biological, and psychologicalSignal Detection Theory30sEditDelete
- Q5change in a stimulus that will be just noticeable is a constant ratio of the original stimulusWeber's law30sEditDelete
- Q6change over time in the responsiveness of the sensory system to a constant stimulusSensory Adaptation30sEditDelete
- Q7diminished emotional responsiveness to a negative or aversive stimulus after repeated exposure to it. It also occurs when an emotional response is repeatedly evoked in situations in which the aDesensitization30sEditDelete
- Q8physical signals from the environment are transducted into neural signalsTransduction30sEditDelete
- Q9transparent covering of the eyeCornea30sEditDelete
- Q10colored part of the eyeIris30sEditDelete
- Q11focuses the light rays that pass through itLens30sEditDelete
- Q12layer in the back of the eye responsible for turning images into neural code, also contains rods and conesRetina30sEditDelete
- Q13the nerve that carries neural impulses from the eye to the brainOptic nerve30sEditDelete
- Q14retinal receptor cells that are concentrated near the center of the retina that function best in daylightCones30sEditDelete
- Q15retinal receptors that detect black and white, function for peripheral vision and dim lightingRods30sEditDelete
- Q16small depression in the retina of the eye where cones are highly concentratedFovea30sEditDelete
- Q17theory that states that there are three receptors in the retina that are responsible for the perception of colorTrichromatic theory30sEditDelete
- Q18nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shapeFeature Detectors30sEditDelete
- Q19its the brains natural mode of processing many functions, like visionParallel Processing30sEditDelete
- Q20the study of relationships between physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity and our psychological experience of themPsychophysics30sEditDelete