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Absolute threshold
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The smallest possible strength of a stimulus that can be detected half the time
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Wavelength
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The distance from one wave peak to another
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Cones
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The short, thick, pointed sensory receptors of the eye that detects color and are responsible for color vision and visual acuity
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Tri chromatic Theory of Color vision
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The theory that the sensation of color results because cones in the retina are especially sensitive to red light (long wave length), green light (medium wavelengths) or blue light (short wave length)
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Pheromones
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Chemical signals released by an animal that communicate information and affect the behavior of other animals of the same species
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Gestalt Psychology
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A school of psychology founded in Germany in the early 1900s that maintained that our sensations are actively processed according to consistent perceptual rules that result in meaningful whole perceptions or Gestalts
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