Unit 4: Psych Vocab Quiz

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

• continuity

• sensation

• perception

• retina

the minimum intensity of stimulation that must occur before you experience a sensation

• difference threshold

• vestibular sense

• sensory adaptation

• absolute threshold

the tendency to perceive things that look similar to each other as being part of the same group

• continuity

• common fate

• similarity

• sensation

sharpness of vision

• vestibular sense

• similarity

• photoreceptors

• visual acuity

depth cues, such as interposition and linear perspective, available to either eye alone

• vestibular sense

• monocular cues

• binocular cues

• sensory adaption

nearness, closeness, the state of being in the vicinity of something

• continuity

• perception

• proximity

• similarity

the adjustable opening in the center of the eye through which light enters

• lens

• proximity

• pupil

• perception

colors that are across from each other on the color wheel

• complimentary

• olfactory nerve

• afterimage

• common fate

the point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye, creating a "blind" spot because no receptor cells are located there

• perception

• continuity

• sensation

• blind spot

the nerve that carries smell impulses from the nose to the brain

• vestibular sense

• common fate

• auditory nerve

• olfactory nerve