Sensation/Perception AP review vocab

Concepts or frameworks that organize and interpret information.

• parallel processing
• schemas
• folders

The skin sensations: touch/pressure, warmth, cold & pain.

• somatosensation
• subliminal stimulation
• parietal lobe

The position on the basilar membrane at which waves reach their peak depends on the frequency of a tone.  Accounts for high pitched sounds. 

• place theory
• frequency theory
• binocular depth cues

Proposed theory for color vision with cones that are differentially sensitive to different wavelengths of light. 

• opponent process theory
• place theory
• trichromatic theory

Minimum difference between any two stimuli that a person can detect 50% of the time.

• Weber's Law
• Absolute threshold
• Difference threshold

The weakest level of a stimulus that can be correctly detected at least 50% of the time.

• opponent process theory
• absolute threshold
• perceptual constancy

Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus. 

• selective attention
• Weber's Law
• parallel processing

The study of paranormal events that investigates claims of ESP. 

• perceptual constancy
• hypnosis
• parapsychology

The idea that pain can only be experienced if pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their way to the brain.

• place theory
• gate control theory
• opponent process theory

Clues about distance based on the image of one eye.

• binocular depth cues
• monocular depth cues
• subliminal stimulation