Chapter 4 Vocabulary

lowest level of the stimulus needed for the nervous system detected a change 50 percent of the time

• Depth Perception

• Just Noticeable Difference

• Absolute Threshold

• Perceptual Constancy

changing the shape of the lens to focus on objects near and far.

• Perception

• Accommodation

• Sensory Adaptation

• Sensation

sharpness of vision

• Acuity

• Hue

• Timbre

• Gustation

our sense of hearing

• Olfaction

• Vestibular Sense

• Audition

• Gustation

stimuli that enables is to judge depth using both eyes

• Binocular Depth Cues

• Parallel Processing

• Monocular Depth Cues

• Extrasensory Perception

processing in which a whole is constructed from parts

• Top-Down Processing

• Bottom-up Processing

• Parallel Processing

• Weber's Law

inability to see some or all colors

• Weber's Law

• Color Blindness

• Perceptual Constancy

• Inattentional Blindness

ability to judge distance and three-dimensional relations

• Perceptual Constancy

• Parallel Processing

• Depth Perception

• Binocular Depth Cues

perception of events outside the known channels of sensation

• Extra Sensory Perception

• Perceptual Constancy

• Subliminal Perception

• Absolute Threshold

our sense of taste

• Gustation

• Audition

• Olfaction

• Vestibular