These are the terms you need to understand and remember. These facts and concepts are the raw materials for your studying.
Here’s how to approach it
Start by identifying the “Don’t Knows.” These are the items you are sure you don’t know. We have a unique ability to know what we don’t know. Without searching, you know you don’t know the word shkuumptin (because I just made it up). But you didn’t have to search. You immediately knew it wasn’t in your memory systems.
Use this ability, called negative recognition, to speed up your studying. Scan through the list of terms and make note of the ones you don’t know anything about. Look them up and move them from Don’t Knows to Not Sures.
Once everything is either Know or Not Sure, you can organize the list into clusters, study the clusters and remember everything better.
Terms
- absolute thresholds
- accommodation
- acupuncture
- afterimages
- alpha waves
- amplitude
- audition
- beta waves
- binocular cues
- bitter
- blind spot
- body position
- bottom-up processing
- brightness
- brightness constancy
- closure
- cochlea
- cochlear implant
- color
- color constancy
- color processing
- conduction hearing loss
- cones
- context
- continuation
- continuity
- controlling pain
- cornea
- culture
- delta waves
- depth
- depth perception
- difference threshold
- dissociation
- ear
- eardrum
- emotion
- ESP
- expectations
- face recognition
- feature detection
- figure
- figure-ground
- form
- form perception
- fovea
- frequency
- frequency theory
- gate-control theory
- gestalt
- ground
- grouping
- hearing loss
- Hering’s opponent-process theory
- hue
- hypnosis
- inner ear
- intensity
- interposition
- kinesthesia
- lens
- light and shadow
- linear perspective
- location
- loud sounds
- middle ear
- monocular cue
- motion
- motion perception
- motivation
- NREM
- occipital lobes
- olfaction
- optic nerve
- optical illusions
- outer ear
- pain
- parallel processing
- perception
- perceptual adaptation
- perceptual constancy
- perceptual interpretation
- perceptual organization
- perceptual set
- phi phenomenon
- pitch
- place theory
- placebo
- post-hypnotic suggestions
- premonitions
- priming
- prosogagnoma
- proximity
- psychophysics
- pupil
- relative height
- relative motion
- relative size
- REM
- retina
- retinal disparity
- right-side up faces
- rods
- salty
- sensation
- sensorineural hearing loss
- sensory adaptation
- sensory interaction
- sensory receptors
- shape constancy
- shape detectors
- signal detection theory
- size constancy
- soft sounds
- sound waves
- sour
- subliminal
- sweet
- taste
- texture gradient
- thalamus
- theta waves
- thresholds
- top-down processing
- touch
- transducer
- transducing
- transduction
- umami
- vestibular sense
- vision
- visual cliff
- wave height
- wavelength
- Weber’s law
- Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory
Important Terms
- aqueous humor
- rods
- optic chiasm
- opponent-process theory
- pragnanz
- bottom-up processing
- parallel processing
