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Sensation is to ______ as perception is to ______.
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To construct meaning from our external environment, we organize and interpret sensory information. This is the process of
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Subliminal stimuli, such as undetectably faint sights or sounds, are
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Weber's Law states that for a difference to be perceived, two stimuli must differ by
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Sensory Adaptation has survival benefits because it helps us focus on
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The physical characteristic of light that determines the color we experience, such as blue or green, is
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The blind spot in your retina is located in an area where
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Cones are the eye's receptor cells that are especially sensitive to _______ light and are responsible for our _________ vision
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The brain cells that respond maximally to certain bars, edges, and angles are called
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The brain's ability to process many aspects of an object or problem simultaneously is called
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Two theories together account for color vision. The Young-Helmholts theory shows that the eye contains ____________, and the Hering accounts for the nervous system's having _______.
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The amplitude of a sounds wave determines our perception of
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The frequency of sound waves determines their pitch. The ________ the waves are, the lower their frequency is and the _______ their pitch.
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The snail-shaped tube in the inner ear, where sound waves are converted into neural activity, is called the
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Of all the skin senses, only ________ has its own identifiable receptor cells.
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The vestibular sense monitors the body's position and movement. Vestibular sense receptors are located in the
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The gate-control theory of pain proposes that
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a food's smell or aroma can greatly enhance its taste. This is an example of
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In listening to a concert, you follow the lead singer and perceive the other musicians as accompaniment; this illustrates the organizing principle of
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Our tendencies to fill in the gaps and to perceive a pattern as continuous are two different examples of the organizing principle called
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Visual cliff experiments on depth perception suggest that
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Depth perception underlies our ability to
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Examples of monocular cues, which are available to either eye alone, include interposition and
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perceiving tomatoes as consistently red, despite shifting illumination, is an example of
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After surgery to restore vision, patients who had been blind from birth had difficulty
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Experiments in which volunteers wear glasses that displace or invert their visual fields show that, after a period of disorientation, people learn to function quite well. This ability is called
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Our perceptual set influences what we perceive. This mental predisposition reflects our
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