Sensation & Perception II Crossword

absolutethreshold :The minimum amount of stimulus energy that a person can
apparentmovement :The perception that a stationary object is
attention :The process of focusing awareness on a narrow aspect of the
auditorynerve :The nerve structure that receives information about sound from the hair cells of the inner ear and carries these neural impulses to the brain’s auditory
binding :In the sense of vision, the bringing together and integration of what is processed by different neural pathways or
binocularcues :Depth cues that depend on the combination of the images in the left and right eye and on the way the two eyes work
bottomupprocessing :The operation in sensation and perception in which sensory receptors register information about the external environment and send it up to the brain for
cones :The receptor cells in the retina that allow for color
convergence :A binocular cue to depth and distance in which the muscle movements in an individual’s two eyes provide information about how deep and/or far away something
depthperception :The ability to perceive objects
differencethreshold :The degree of difference that must exist between two stimuli before the difference is
featuredetectors :Neurons in the brain’s visual system that respond to particular features of a
figure-groundrelationship :The principle by which we organize the perceptual field into stimuli that stand out (figure) and those that are left over
frequencytheory :Theory on how the inner ear registers the frequency of sound, stating that the perception of a sound’s frequency depends on how often the auditory nerve
gestaltpsychology :A school of thought interested in how people naturally organize their perceptions according to certain
innerear :The part of the ear that includes the oval window, cochlea, and basilar membrane and whose function is to convert sound waves into neural impulses and send them to the
kinestheticsenses :Senses that provide information about movement, posture, and
middleear :The part of the ear that channels sound through the eardrum, hammer, anvil, and stirrup to the inner
monocularcues :Powerful depth cues available from the image in one eye, either the right or the
noise :Irrelevant and competing stimuli—not only sounds but also any distracting stimuli for the
olfactoryepithelium :The lining of the roof of the nasal cavity, containing a sheet of receptor cells for
opponentprocesstheory :Theory stating that cells in the visual system respond to complementary pairs of red-green and blue-yellow colors; a given cell might be excited by red and inhibited by green, whereas another cell might be excited by yellow and inhibited by
opticnerve :The structure at the back of the eye, made up of axons of the ganglion cells, that carries visual information to the brain for further