4B Psychology Vocab

a device for converting sounds into electrical signals and stimulating the auditory nerve through electrodes threaded into the bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear.

• Frequency theory

• Inner ear

• Middle Ear

• Cochlea implant

body movement and position, including the balance.

• Vestibular sense

• Perceptual constancy

• Monocular cues

• Middle ear

in vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field.

• Perceptual constancy

• Perceptual adaptation

• Sensory interaction

the ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge distance.

• Gestalt

• Depth perception

• Middle ear

• Extrasensory perception (esp)

a mental disposition to perceive one thing and not another.

• Perceptual adaptation

• Perceptual set

• Gate-control theory

• Monocular cues

the controversial claim that what is perceived can occur apart from sensory input; includes telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

• Perceptual set

• Extrasensory perception (ESP)

• Depth perception

• Sensory interaction

in hearing, the belief that links the pitch we hear with the location where the cochlea's membrane is stimulated when the sound was heard.

• Retinal disparity

• Phi phenomeno

• Frequency theory

• Place theory

the sense or act of hearing.

• Pitch

• Audition

• Figure-ground

• Frequency

the principle that one sense may influence another, as when the smell of food influences its taste.

• Sensorineural hearing loss

• Perceptual adaptation

• Sensory interaction

• Place theory

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

• Kinethesis

• Monocular Cues

• Vestibular Sense

• Parapsychology