Absolute Threshold Vocabulary Senses Constancy ESP
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What is the absolute threshold of light?
Seeing candlelight from 30 miles away
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What is sensation?
The process of detecting a physical stimulus such as light, sound, heat or pressure
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What is vision?
This sense has receptors that are rods & cones in the retina
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What is the real color of the dress that broke the internet?
Blue and Black
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What is extrasensory perception?
What does ESP stand for?
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What is the absolute threshold of sound?
Hearing a watch ticking from 20 feet away
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What is perception?
The process of integrating, organizing, and interpreting sensations
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What is taste?
This sense has stimulus that are mixed in saliva
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What is perceptual constancy?
This is the tendency to perceive objects as constant and unchanging despite changes in sensory input.
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What is clairvoyance?
Perceiving objects or information without sensory input
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What is one teaspoon of sugar in two gallons of water?
The absolute threshold of taste
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What is stimuli?
Things that make one of your senses react when they are noticed
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What is hearing?
This sense has hair like receptors in the cochlea
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What is shape constancy?
This is the perception of a familiar object as maintaining the same shape regardless of the image produced on the retina
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What is telepathy?
Reading someone else's mind or transferring one's thoughts
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What is one drop of perfume in a three room apartment/house?
The absolute threshold of perfume
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What is difference threshold?
The smallest possible difference between two stimuli that can be detected
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What is the vestibular sense?
This sense reacts to changes in position or gravity
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What is color constancy?
This is the perception of a familiar object as being the same color under different light conditions
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What is psychokinesis?
Moving objects through purely mental effort
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What is feeling a bee's wing falling on your cheek from a height of about an inch and a half?
The absolute threshold of touch
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What is absolute threshold?
The smallest possible strength of a stimulus that can detected half of the time
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What is kinesthetic sense?
This sense reacts to movement of the body
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What is size constancy?
This is the perception that an object remains the same size despite its changing image on the retina
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What is precognition?
The ability to foretell events






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