INDEPENDENT WORK:
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KEY TERMS
Transduction Sensory adaptation Sensory habituation (also called perceptual adaptation) Cocktail-party phenomenon Sensation Perception Energy senses Chemical senses Vision Cornea Pupil Lens Retina Feature detectors Optic nerve Occipital lobe Visible light Rods and cones Fovea Blind spot Trichromatic theory Color blindness Afterimages Opponent-process theory Hearing Sound waves Amplitude Frequency Cochlea Pitch theories Place theory Frequency theory Conduction deafness Nerve deafness Touch Gate-control theory Taste (or gustation) Smell (or olfaction) Vestibular sense Kinesthetic sense Absolute threshold Subliminal messages Difference threshold Weber’s law Signal detection theory Top-down processing Perceptual set Bottom-up processing Gestalt rules Proximity Similarity Continuity Closure Constancy Size constancy Shape constancy Brightness constancy Depth cues KEY PEOPLE David Hubel Torsten Wiesel Ernst Weber Gustav Fechner Eleanor Gibson |