AP Psychology Unit 3 Sensation & Perception

Front

Depth cues, such as convergence, that depend on the use of two eyes.

Back

Binocular Cue

Front

Focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus and blocking out all other stimuli.

Back

Selective attention

Front

The system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts.

Back

Kinesthesis

Front

Retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray and that work best in dim light.

Back

Rods

Front

Perceiving objects as unchanging, even as illumination and retinal images change

Back

Perceptual Constancy

Front

Diminishing sensitivity to a constant, unchanging stimulus.

Back

Sensory Adaptation

Front

Theory that links the pitch we hear to the rate of the cochlea’s hair cell vibrations.

Back

Frequency theory

Front

Principle that one sense may influence another.

Back

Sensory Interaction

Front

The minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50% of the time.

Back

Difference Threshold

Front

A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.

Back

Perceptual Set