AP Psychology
Sensation and Perception
Vocabulary List
Instructions:
You are to write one index card for each of the enclosed terms. On the front you are to write the term and on the
reverse you are to write the definition and an example or application of the term you are explaining. Writing the names
associated with each is also HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. The index cards must be in order and must be numbered. The
more you put into it, the better it will be.
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Absolute threshold
Additive color mixing
Afterimage
Auditory localization
Basilar membrane
Binocular depth cues
Bottom-up processing
Cochlea
Color blindness
Complementary colors
Cones
Convergence
Dark adaptation
Depth perception
Distal stimuli
Farsightedness
Feature analysis
Feature detectors
Fovea
Frequency theory
Gate-control theory
Gustatory system
Impossible figures
Inattentional blindness
Just noticeable difference
Lateral antagonism
Lens
Light adaptation
Monocular depth cues
Motion parallax
Nearsightedness
Olfactory system
Opponent process theory
Optic chiasm
Optic disk
Parallel processing
Perception
Perceptual constancy
Perceptual hypothesis
Perceptual set
Phi phenomenon
Pictorial depth cues
Place theory
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Proximal stimuli
Psychophysics
Pupil
Receptive field of a visual cell
Retina Retinal disparity
Reversible figure
Rods
Sensation
Sensory adaptation
Signal-detection theory
Subjective contours
Subliminal perception
Subtractive color mixing
Top-down processing
Trichromatic theory
Visual illusion
Linda Bartoshuk
Gustav Fechner
Hermann von Helmholtz
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall
Max Wertheimer