psych 4 and 5
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- ponzo illusion
- perceive top line as being longer than bottom line when they're really the same size
- muller-lyer illusion
- view two equally long line segments as different lengths because they are braced by differently angled diagonal lines
- amacrine cells and horizontal cells
- make lateral connections in adjacent areas of the retina
- bipolar cells
- make dual connections backward and forward in eye to ganglion cells, retina cells
- cones
- short, thick photoreceptors cones, center, clarity, color
- fovea
- small, thin region of the retina, pinhead sized, directly in the line of sight
- retina
- network of neurons that extends over the back surface of the eye
- R C H B A G O N (anagram)
- race cars hit bumps and go over nails
- parts of eye front to back
- rods, cones, horizontal, bipolar, amarcin, ganglion, optic nerve
- three little bones in ear?
- mallet, anvil, stirrup.
- hearing: chem or mechan?
- mechanical!
- outer part of ear the big fleshy thing
- pinaae/auricle
- what's inside the cochlea?
- oval window, basilar membrane!
- what is the basilar membrane covered with?
- HAIRS
- taste: chem or mechan?
- chemical
- smell: chem or mechan?
- chemical!
- what happens in the retina?
- electromagnetic light energy is transduced into neuronal electrochemical impulses.
- The information from the taste receptors is sent to each of the following brain regions, except
- the frontal lobe
- The two types of fibers that allow us to respond to changes in temperature are referred to as the _____ and the _____ fibers.
- hot and cold