The detection and encoding of stimulus energy by the nervous system is called___.

You walk into a store which is playing music on their speakers, but you don't "hear" it. When you leave the store, you start singing the song that was playing in the store, but you can't figure out why that song is in your head. This is an example of a _______________.

Signal detection theory suggests that our "detection" of a stimuli depends on ____________.

The fact that you view this image as an airplane, even though it is a series of segments, can be explained by _______________.

Most people experience different wavelengths of electromagnetic energy as differences in ___.

The blind spot is located in the area of the retina ____.

The organizational rules developed by Gestalt psychologists illustrate that _____.

Our perception varies greatly depending on what we perceive as figure or ground.

As a jackhammer operator who has experienced years of exposure to loud drilling sounds, Alex is beginning to lose his hearing. Given his job, it is most likely that Alex’s hearing loss results from damage to his _____.

The minimum difference between 2 stimuli that we can detect is the ___.