Question 1

What is sensation?

Accepted Answer

Process of sensory receptors receiving information from the environment

(vision, hearing, smell, etc.)

Question 2

What is sensorineural hearing loss?

Accepted Answer

Hearing loss caused by damage to the inner ear or auditory nerve

Question 3

What is inattentional blindness / perceptual blindness?

Accepted Answer

An individual failing to perceive a stimulus in plain sight, due to a lack of attention (rather than visual problems)

Question 4

What is change blindness?

Accepted Answer

The tendency for observes to fail to notice large changes to a scene when the change is interrupted by a brief pause

Question 5

What is the figure-ground relationship?

Accepted Answer

Tendency to group the scene we are looking at into the main object (figure) and the background (ground)

(below: vase is main object because the background is white.  If the background was black, people would see the faces faster)

Question 6

What are vestibular sacs?

Accepted Answer

Two sacs in the middle of the ear that work with the semicircular canals to provide the vestibular sense

(utricle and saccule)

Question 7

What is the optic chiasm?

Accepted Answer

X-shaped structure formed where the optic nerves cross

Sensation, AP Psychology Flashcards