Ch.4: Sensation & Pereption

Question 1

Specialized receptors cells located in our sense organs. they detect and transmit raw sensory information from the external/internal environments to the brain

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sensation

Question 2

the process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting sensory information into meaningful patterns.

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perception

Question 3

the sensory receptors convert the energy from the specific sensory stimulus into neural impulse, which are sent to the brain

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transduction

Question 4

The brain interprets different physical stimuli as distinct situations because their neural impulses travel by different route and arrive at different parts of the brain

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Coding

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studies and measures the link between the physical characteristic of stimuli and the sensory experience of them

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phsycophysics

Question 6

The smallest physical difference between two stimuli that is consciously detectable 50% of the time. Webers law of just noticeable difference

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Different threshold

Question 7

Softest level at which you can sense a stimuli 50% of the time. (hearing Test)

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Absolute Threshold

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weak stimuli

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Sublimal stimuli

Question 9

when a constant stimulus is presented for a long length of time. sensation often fades, or dissapears

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Sensory adaptation

Question 10

A theory proposed by Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall, believed that the experience of pain depends on whether the neural messages get pass a gatekeeper in the spinal cord

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Gate control theory

Question 11

which sense is involved in interpreting,light waves are a form of electromagnetic energy,

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vision

Question 12

which sense is involved in sound waves

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hearing

Question 13

Place theory is defined as

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High frequency > high pitch sound

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Frequency theory

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Low frequency > low pitch sound

Question 15

Problems with mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea (hearing aids)

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conduction hearing loss

Question 16

Damage from the cochlea’s receptor (hair cells) or the auditory nerve. Continuous exposure to loud noises

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Sensorineural hearing loss

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typically called chemical senses, they both rely on chemoreceptors that are sensitive to certain molecules

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smell and taste

Question 18

sense of smell, posses more than 1000 types of olfactory receptors, can detect 10000 distinct smells

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olfacotry

Question 19

chemicals found in natural body scent, affect various behaviors.

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phermones

Question 20

sense of taste

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gustation

Question 21

true or false: false expectation can actually trigger areas of the brain that respond to pleasant experiences. (expensive wine)

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true

Question 22

the five distinct taste(gustation) buds are

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sweet, sour, salty , bitter, umami

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taste buds are distributed all over our tongue withing the little bumps called

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papillae

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detects touch, temperature, and pain (kangaroo-care)

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skin

Question 25

sense of balance how our body is oriented w/ gravity

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vestibular sense

Question 26

sense located in muscles, joints, and tendons. Detects bodily posture, orientation ad movement of body relative to each other

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Kinesthesis

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false, misleading impression produced by errors in the perceptual process

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illusion

Question 28

brain picks out the information that is important & discards the rest (cocktail party phenomenon)

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Selective attention

Question 29

Decrease in responding due to repeated stimulation by the same stimulus ( long term relationships)

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Habituatuion

Question 30

respond to only certain stimuli, associated with the temporal and occipital lobe

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Feature detectors

Question 31

perceive depth & distance of objects

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depth perception

Question 32

both eyes work together

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binocular

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each eye seperately

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monocular

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perceptual constancies, perceive the environment as stable, despite changes in physical form

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constancies perception

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three color systems, sensitive to green, red , blue

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Trichromatic theory of color

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sensitive to oposing colors, (black and white)

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Opponent process theory of color

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influenced by sensory adaptation, perceptual set, frame of reference and bottom up or top down processing

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interpretation

Question 38

readiness to perceive in a particular manner (what we expect to see)

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perceptual set

Question 39

our surroundings, think were better compared to something else

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frame of reference

Question 40

bottom up & top down

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sensory> perception

perception> sensory