AP Psych - Unit 4: Social Psychology + Personality

The ability to see objects in 3D, even though the images that reach the retina are 2D. It allows us to judge distance

Depth perception

Hearing loss caused by damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea

Conduction hearing loss

Principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant percentage

Webers law

A device for converting sounds into electrical signals and stimulating the auditory nerve through electrodes threaded into the cochlea

Cochlear implant

System for sensing the position and movement of body parts

Kinethsis

When we can't see visible objects because our attention is elsewhere

Innatentional blindness