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Nearsightedness
Unable to see objects in the distance.
Farsightedness
Unable to see objects close to your eye.
inattentional blindness
The phenomenon of missing what’s right in front of your eyes.
parapsyhology
the study of paranormal phenomena
extrasensory perception (ESP)
the controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input, includes telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.
embodied cognition
the influence of bodily sensations, gestures, and other states on cognitive preferences and judgments.
sensory interaction
the principle that one sense can influence another
vestibular sense
our balance sense- our sense of body movement and position that enables our sense of balance
kinesthesia
our movement sense- our system for sensing the position and movement of the individual body parts.
olfaction
sense of smell
Gustation
sense of taste
posthypnotic suggestion
a suggestion made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out when the subject isn’t hypnotised anymore.
Dissociation
a split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others.
Hypnosis
A social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur
Frequency Theory
in hearing, the theory that the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of tone, thus enabling us to sense its pitch. (Temporal coding)
Place Theory
in hearing, the theory that links the pitch we hear with the place where cochlea’s membrane is stimulated. (place coding)
cochlear implant
a device for converting sounds into electrical signals and stimulating the auditory nerve through electrodes threaded into the cochlea
conduction hearing loss
A less common form of hearing loss, damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound to cochlea.
sensorineural hearing loss
the most common form of hearing loss, damage to the cochlea’s receptors or auditory nerve; also called nerve deafness
Inner ear
innermost part of the ear, containing the cochlea, semicircular canals, and vestibular sacs
Cochlea
A coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner-ear; sound waves traveling through the cochlear
Middle Ear
the chamber between the eardrum and cochlea containing three tiny bones- Hammer, anvil, and stirrup- that concentrate the vibrations of the eardrum on the cochlea’s oval window
pitch
a tone’s experienced highness or lowness: Depends on frequency.
Frequency
The number if complete wave-lengths that pass a point in given time
Audition
The sense or act of hearing