Exam 2 Study Guide

Front 1

The area of a retina that effects firing of a cell

Back 1

Receptive field

Front 2

How do red, green, and blue light differ?

Back 2

Red Cones: Long
Green Cones: Medium
Blue Cones: Short

Front 3

As people age, the lens of the eye loses what?

Back 3

The ability to accommodate (when the curvature of the lens adjusts to alter visual focus)
Close Objects - Rounder
Far Objects - Flattens

Front 4

The amount of light entering the eye is regulated by?

Back 4

The Pupil

Front 5

Night and Peripheal vision:
Daylight and Acute:

Back 5

Rods
Cones

Front 6

A color theory that states that our visual system interprets information about color by processing signals from cones and rods in an antagonistic manner.
(Red vs. Green, Yellow vs. Blue, Black vs. White)
Explains why we need four colors

Back 6

Opponent Process

Front 7

Theory that states human eye has three types of receptors with differing sensitivities to different light wavelengths. Eyes mix three colors for us.

Back 7

Tri -Chromatic Theory

Front 8

Sensory system breaks down stimuli's features and processes the information

Back 8

Feature Analysis

Front 9

Neurons that respond selectively to very specific features of more complex stimuli

Back 9

Feature Detectors

Front 10

Whole to the elements
E.X: Perceiving a word before its individual letters

Back 10

Top-Down Processing

Front 11

Individual elements to a whole

Back 11

Bottom-Up Processing

Front 12

Gestalt Principles are what?

Back 12

People unify elements
Proximity: Things that are near seem to belong
Closure: Completing figures that have gaps
Similarity: Grouping stimuli that are similar

Front 13

Two vertical lines equal

Back 13

Muller-Lyer Illusion

Front 14

Fluid filled, coiled tunnel that contains the receptors for hearing. Inner ear.

Back 14

Cochlea

Front 15

Membrane runs length of the spinal cochlea, holds the auditory receptors, called hair cells. Fluid in ear stimulate hair cells which convert this to neural impulses

Back 15

Basilar Cells

Front 16

20th century movement in art where geometric shapes, interlocking planes, were used.

Back 16

Cubism

Front 17

Brings info from the body's periphery toward the brain. Used to detect pain.

Back 17

Free nerve endings

Front 18

Make a large request that's rejected then a smaller one that's likely to be acccepted

Back 18

Door in the Face technique

Front 19

Things being more or less different than they actually are

Back 19

Contrast Effects

Front 20

Selective awareness of external stimuli

Back 20

Consciousness, attention

Front 21

Structure in the hypothalamus that sends signals to the Pineal gland, which secretes melatonin

Back 21

Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Front 22

13-24 Frequency. Normal, Alert.

Back 22

Beta waves

Front 23

8-12 Frequency. Deep relaxation, blank mind.

Back 23

Alpha waves

Front 24

Less than 4 frequency. Deep sleep.

Back 24

Delta waves

Front 25

Frequent, reflexive gasping for air that awakens a person and disrupts sleep

Back 25

Sleep apnea

Front 26

Sleepwalking

Back 26

Somnambulism

Front 27

Dreams happen when the cortex constructs a story to make sense of internal signals from lower brain centers

Back 27

Activation Synthesis Model of Dreaming

Front 28

Splitting off of mental processes into two seperate, simultaneous streams of awareness

Back 28

Dissociation theory of hypnosis

Front 29

Symptoms people go through when quitting a drug

Back 29

Withdrawal

Front 30

Progressive decrease in a person's responsiveness to a drug

Back 30

Tolerance

Front 31

Physical and psychological reliance on a drug

Back 31

Dependency

Front 32

Hidden or disguised meaning of the events in the plot

Back 32

Psychoanalyst latent content of the dream