| Term | Definition |
|---|
| waves | sound travels through the air in the form of this |
| frequency | the pitch of sound depends on its |
| higher | the more cycles per sound, the [____] the pitch of a sound |
| dolphins | these animals use sound to help them locate objects |
| amplitude | the loudness of a sound is determined by its |
| decibles | unit used to measure the loudness of sound |
| middle ear | consists of the hammer, anvil, and stirrup |
| inner ear | consists of the cochlea |
| disease, injury, old age | cause deafness |
| conductive deafness | occurs because of damage to the middle ear |
| sensorineural deafness | usually caused by damage to the inner ear |
| hearing aids | can help people who suffer from conductive deafness |
| disease or loud sounds | can cause sensorineural deafness (damage to the auditory nerve) |
| sign language, closed captioning, artificial ears | tools available to hearing impaired people (3) |
| stirrup | the smallest bone in your body |
| taste | the other sense that smell is related to |
| receptor neurons | detect odors of substances |
| olfactory nerve | nerve that sends information about odors to the brain |
| taste buds | receptor neurons that sense taste |
| sweet, sour, salty, bitter | 4 basic taste qualities |
| sensitivity | leads to how food tastes to you |
| eating hot foods and scraping your tongue | kills off taste buds |
| pressure, pain, temperature | sense of touch consists of 3 things |
| pain | it motivates us to do something to stop something that is wrong |
| adapting to heat/cold | when you walk into different settings, your body adapts |
| prostaglandins | help the body transmit pain messages to the brain |
| gate theory | suggests that only a certain amount of information can be processed by the nervous system at a time |
| phantom limbs | there is no current tissue damage, but there is pain involving the activation of nerves in the stump of the missing limb |
| vestibular sense | helps you keep your balance |
| kinesthesis | the sense that informs people about their positions and motion of their bodies |
| perception | the way we organize or make sense of our sensory impressions |
| stroboscopic motion | the illusion of movement is produced by showing the rapid progression of images or objects that are not moving at all |
| depth perception | how far you perceive things to be |
| monocular cues | need only one eye to be perceived (optical illusions) |
| binocular cues | both eyes are needed to perceive (retinal disparity and convergence) |
| size consistancy | the tendency to perceive an object as being of one size no matter how far away the object is, even though the size of its image on the retina varies with its distance |
| color consistancy | the tendency to perceive objects as keeping their color even though different light might change the appearance of their color |
| closure | the tendency to perceive a complete or whole figure even when there are gaps in what your senses tell you |
| proximity | nearness |
| similarity | says that people think of similar objects as belonging together |
| continuity | an orginization of your perceptions according to this rule (people prefer to see smooth, continuous patterns, not disrupted ones) |
| common fate | the law that says things moving together belong together |
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