sensation & perception vocab

1. Sensation

2. Perception

3. Absolute threshold

4. Difference threshold

5. Weber’s law

6. Fechner’s law

7. Signal detection theory

8. Adaptation

9. Habituation

10. Perceptual set

11. Selective attention

12. Parts of the eye (pathway of light)

13. Rods

14. Cones

15. Visual agnosia

16. Trichromatic theory

17. Opponent processing theory

18. Subtractive vs. additive color mixing

19. Phi phenomenon

20. Figure-ground perception

21. Gestalt beliefs of perception

22. Binocular disparity and depth cues

23. Monocular depth cues

24. Visual cliff

25. Perceptual constancies (shape, color, size)

26. Distal stimulus

27. Proximal stimulus

28. Feature Analysis theory

29. Nearsightedness vs. Farsightedness

30. Parts of the ear (pathway of sound)

31. Perceptive deafness

32. Conductive deafness

33. Vestibular system

34. Place theory

35. Volley theory

36. Frequency theory

37. Cocktail party effect

38. Dichotic listening

39. Gustatory system

40. Olfactory system

41. Sensation of touch

42. Oleogustus

43. Gate control theory

44. Kinesthetic system

45. Synesthesia

46. Prosopagnosia

47. Pheromones

48. Phantom Limb Sensation