Unit 4 Study Guide

Vocabulary/Terms:
1. Sensation
2. Perception
3. Selective Attention
4. Inattention Blindness
5. Change Blindness
6. Sensory Adaptation
7. Transduction
8. Accommodation
9. Retina
10. Blind Spot
11. Fovea
12. Rods
13. Cones
14. Wavelength
15. Hue
16. Feature Detectors
17. Parallel Processing
18. Audition
19. Frequency
20. Pitch
21. Cochlea
22. Sensory Interaction
23. Gestalt
24. Figure-Ground
25. Grouping
26. Proximity
27. Similarity
28. Continuity
29. Closure
30. Visual Clif
31. Retinal Disparity
32. Convergence
33. Phi-Phenomenon
34. Looming
35. Stroboscopic Movement
Theories:
1. Bottom-Up Processing
2. Top-Down Processing
3. Psychophysics
4. Thresholds

5. Absolute Threshold
6. Signal Detection
7. Subliminal Stimulation
8. Diference Threshold
9. Webers Law
10. How the Eye Sees (Detail each part of the eye from front to
back)
11. Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory
12. Opponent-Process Theory
13. How the Ear Hears (Detail each part of the ear from Outer
Inner)
14. Place Theory
15. Frequency Theory
16. How the Nose and Tongue Interact
17. How Touch Works (Detail each touch receptor)
18. Gate-Control Theory
19. How Balance and Body Position Work (Detail each system)
20. Form Perception
21. Depth Perception
22. Perceptual Constancy
23. Perceptual Adaptation
24. Perceptual Set
People:
1. Herman Von Helmholtz
2. Thomas Young
3. Ernst Weber
4. Eleanor Gibson & Richard Walk
5. David Hubel

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