AP Psychology unit 3 vocab

 The smallest level of energy required to detect a specific stimulus 50% of the time. These senses include sense of smell, touch, hearing, sight, and taste.

• Difference Threshold

• Absolute Threshold

The magnitude or the strength of a reaction or stimulus. Results from an experiment can have a strong amplitude, which means it is likely statistically significant.

• Absolute Threshold

• Difference Threshold

• Amplitude

Canal that conducts sound from the external ear to the eardrum.

• Ear canal

• Auditory canal

• eardrum

nerve that connects inner ear with the brain and carries nerve impulses concerned with hearing and balance

• optic nerve

• auditory nerve

visual information retained from two eyes that allow us to have depth perception. Develops after Monocular cues

• binocular cues

• depth perception

• vision

gather information from the rods and cones and pass it to the ganglion cells. These cells form the middle layer of the retina.

• Bipolar cells

• Ganglion cells

• Cilia

together, these cells form the optic nerve. They make up the top layer of the cells in the retina.

• Binocular perception

• Ganglion cells

• Bipolar cells

Idea that one sense influences another 

Ex; Vision- appearance of food

• Sensory interaction

• Sense change

refers to how sensitive a person is to taste

• Absolute threshold

• sensory threshold

• Gustatory threshold

The transparent part of the outer covering of the eye, where light first passes in the visual process

• Retina

• Lense

• Cornea