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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception Flashcards

1
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What is sensation?

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When you recognize a stimulus

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2
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What is perception?

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Messages drive, figure out overall meaning

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3
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What is agnosia?

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Inability to recognize familiar objects despite clear vision

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What is the just noticeable difference?

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The smallest difference between 2 stimuli that is detectable 50% of the time

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What is Weber’s law?

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Just noticeable difference is fixed so once you detect it, you always know it

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6
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Give an example of Weber’s law

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Cost is fixed when buying clothes, so you may not buy clothes if it’s a higher %

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7
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What is an absolute threshold?

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Smallest detectable amount of stimulus

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8
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Give an example of absolute threshold

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We can see 1 candle 30 miles away on a clear night

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9
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What is priming?

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A word or concept that makes response think of a related concept

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10
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Give an example of priming

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The word salt makes you think of the word pepper

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11
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What is habituation?

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The brain stops paying attention to constant auditory stimuli

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12
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Given an example of habituation

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We stop noticing the ac noise when we are in a room

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13
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What is sensory adaptation?

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Sensory receptors become less responsive to unchanging stimuli

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14
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Give an example of sensory adaptation

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The eyes adjusting to a dark room

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15
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What is brightness?

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The amplitude of a wave

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16
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What is color?

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The length of the wave (red is long)

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17
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What is saturation?

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The purity of color (shades)

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18
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Function of cornea

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Clear outer membrane of the eye, prevents damage

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19
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Function of pupil

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Controls amount of light entering the eyes (pupil dilation)

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20
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Function of lens

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Focuses light to the back of the eye

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21
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Function of retina

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Contains photoreceptors which receives light

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22
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Function of rods

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Active to low light conditions, unresponsive to color

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23
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Rods adjust to what

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Darkness (Roddy Rich, dark)

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24
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Function of cones

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Responsible for color vision and details (mint chocolate chip ice cream Cones are green)

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25
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Cones adjust to what

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Light after being in the dark

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26
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What is colorblindness?

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When individuals are missing one cone

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27
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What is the trichromatic theory?

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White light that contains all wavelengths

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28
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What is subtractive color mixture?

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Red, yellow, and blue make black (only paints)

29
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What is additive color mixture?

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Occurs in the eye when wavelengths of light are mixed, red, blue, and green make white (only light)

30
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What is the opponent process theory?

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Our cones are organized in pairs of red/green, blue/yellow

31
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What is an afterimage?

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When receptors are maxed out, we see the opposite color

32
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Give example of an afterimage

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Yellow and green American flag turns blue and red when image goes away

33
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What is a wavelength of sound?

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Frequency that corresponds to pitch

34
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What is amplitude of sound?

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The size of a sound wave (volume)

35
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What is purity of sound?

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Quality of sound

36
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Function of outer ear

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Pinna and auditory canal funnel sounds waves which vibrate eardrums

37
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Function of middle ear

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Hammer, anvil, and stirrup amplify sound waves (volume)

38
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Function of inner ear

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Oval window vibrates and causes chain reaction, hair cells receive the sound.

39
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What is the place theory?

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Pitch is determined by place in which hair cells vibrate

40
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What are papillae?

A

Visual bumps on tongue.

41
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What are taste buds?

A

Trenches of papillae

42
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What are the 5 sensations?

A

Sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami (savory)

43
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Where does the olfaction sense go to?

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It bypasses the thalamus and goes directly to the brain.

44
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What is the gate theory control?

A

Pain signals pass through gates in spinal cord determining the experience of pain

45
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What is kinesthesis?

A

Knowledge of position and motion of body parts

46
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Function of vestibular system

A

Controls sense of balance

47
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How does motion sickness occur?

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When vision and vestibular sense clash.

48
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What is figure-ground?

A

Parts of stimulus appear to stand out

49
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What is proximity?

A

How close things are to one another

50
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What is similarity?

A

Things resemble one another in shape, color, etc.

51
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What is closure?

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Completing figures that are incomplete

52
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What is continuity?

A

Perceive things as a unit if they form a pattern

53
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What is contiguity?

A

Two things that happen close together in space or time

54
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What are monocular cues?

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Require one eye to see

55
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What is linear perspective?

A

Parallel lines in the distance

56
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What is relative size?

A

Closer things appear to be larger

57
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What is overlap?

A

Objects blocked from view are “behind”

58
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What is aerial perspective?

A

Objects in distance appear hazy due to particles in air

59
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What is texture gradient?

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Textures become denser and less distinct as distance increases

60
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What is motion parallax?

A

Objects in distance move slowly

61
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What are binocular cues?

A

The use of both eyes

62
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What is convergence?

A

Both eyes merge to focus on one point

63
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What is disparity?

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Each eye sees a slightly different image

64
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What is a Muller-Lyer illusion?

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Lines look different lengths, but are the same length

65
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What is the moon illusion?

A

Background makes objects look smaller/bigger

66
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What is perceptual expectancy?

A

There are 2 ways to be right and 2 ways to be wrong.

67
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What is top-down processing?

A

A pre-existing knowledge that influences our perception (general to specific)

68
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Give an example of top-down processing

A

First interpretation are animals, so last image should be an animal

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