Psychology Culmulative

• Sensory adaptation refers to the diminished sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs due to constant exposure to this stimulus.
• Sensation is the process of detecting environmental stimuli and converting them into signals that can be detected by the nervous system.
• Cocktail party effect refers to a phenomenon where the brain focuses a person's attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli like background noise.
• Correct order of the eye-to-brain pathway of vision: retina, optic nerve, thalamus, occipital lobe.
• Seeing afterimages illustrates the opponent-process theory of color vision.
• Synesthesia is the experience of sensations in one sense being associated with sensations in another sense. (like being able to see music)
• Interposition is a monocular depth perception tool where we perceive something that is blocking another thing as closer.
• The spinal cord contains a neurological gate that controls the transmission of pain messages to the brain according gate control theory of pain.
• Semicircular canals detects rotational movement in our heads (vestibular sense)
• • Wilhelm Wundt started the first lab for psychology, establishing it as an actual science and not a branch of philosophy.
• introspection is when he subject of the experiment evaluates their own reaction to a stimulus