Psych 101 Cumulative

Lens

The flexible, transparent structure in the eye that helps focus an image on the back of the eye's interior

Sensory adaptation is the

heightening of sensory responses to unfamiliar stimuli

The optic disc is the part of the retina

that has no photo receptors

The primary function of the outer ear, or pinna, is to

Gather sounds and direct them to the middle ear

Nociceptors are free nerve endings that are specialized to sense

Pain

A specialized sensory cell that detects stimuli is called a

Sensory receptor cell

Hair Cells

The specialized receptor calls inside the cochlea

The main difference between binocular and monocular depth is that

binocular cues require information from both eyes, while monocular cues do not.

Photoreceptors

are the light-sensitive receptor cells in the retina

An absolute threshold

is the lowest intensity of a stimulus that a person can detect half the time

Occlusion is a

monocular depth cue

You would expect your pupil to be largest when you are

navigating through a dark forest at night

Some of the free nerve endings in your skin are specialized to detect information about

temperature

A potential consequence of convergence is that you will be unable to

use convergence and binocular disparity cues simultaneously

The greatest adaptive, perceptual advantage to having two ears rather than one is that

we are more easily able to localize sounds with two ears