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Chapter 3 - Sensation and Perception Flashcards

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provides the raw information

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Sensation

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how we detect physical energy from the environment and encode it as neural signals

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Sensation

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contracts raw information into our own experiences

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Perception

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how we select, organize, and interpret this information

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Perception

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taking in the energy from the environment and turning it into signals that our brains can understand through our 5 senses

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“Bottom-Up Processing”

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high level brain functions (experiences, motivations, expectations) and interpret what we build from sensation

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“Top-Down Processing”

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minimum stimulation needed to detect something half the time
- detect a signal 50% of the time (ex., ticking clock)

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Absolute Threshold

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predicting how and when we detect the presence of a signal amid background noise

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Signal Detection Theory

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minimum difference a person can detect between two stimuli 50% of the time
- just noticeable difference (JND)

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Difference Threshold

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principle that 2 stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage in order to be perceived as different
- ex., having 60 candles lit in a room and adding one more candle makes the room more brighter half the time and the other half not (JND)

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Weber’s Law

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reduced sensitivity resulting from constant stimulation
- benefit: allows us to focus on informative changes in our environment without being distracted by the uninformative constant stimulation

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Sensory Adaptation

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our ability to select how we want to pay attention

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Selective Attention

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sensation

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Vision

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part of the eye that…
- eyes back surface that contains receptor cells that converts light energy into neural impulses sent to the brain

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The Retina

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part of the eye (retina) that…
- responsible for seeing black, white, and gray
- peripheral and twilight vision

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Rods

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part of the eye (retina) that…
- responsible for seeing fine detail color
- daylight or well-lit conditions

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Cones

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part of the eye (retina) that…
- bundle of axons of ganglion cells
- carries neural impulses from eye to brain

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Optic Nerve

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part of the eye (retina) that…
- point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye

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Blind Spot

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images we “see” are not made of light, they are made of neural signals

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Visual Information Processing

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the retina contains 3 different type of color receptors (red, green, blue)
- when stimulated in combination can produce the perception of any color

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Trichromatic Theory

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opposing retinal process (red-green, yellow-blue, black-white) enable color vision
- some neurons are turned “on” by red and turned “off” by green

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Opponent Process Theory

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audition

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Hearing

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part of the inner ear…
- spiral fluid filled structure in inner ear that sends sound waves to the brain

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The Cochlea

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olfaction

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Smell

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regions in the brain involve smell
- including amygdala and cerebral cortex

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Olfactory Cortex

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gustation

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Taste

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can detect 4 basic qualities
1. sweetness
2. saltiness
3. sourness
4. bitterness
5. umami (argued)

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Taste

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sense of the position and movement of the body parts
- ex., when your alarm goes off, you know where to put your arm to turn it off

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Kinesthetic Sense

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sense of balance

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Vestibular Sense

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gestalt

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Perception

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  • means “whole”
  • our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes
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Gestalt

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form, depth, constancy

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Perceptual Principles

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  • part of “form” principle
  • organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surrounding
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Figure-Ground

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  • part of “depth” principle
  • ability to see objects in 3-D although the images that strike the retina are 2-D (allows us to judge distance)
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Depth Perception

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  • part of “depth” principle
  • depend on the use of the 2 eyes
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Binocular Cues

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  • part of “depth” principle
  • depth cues that our brain looks for that requires the use of only 1 eyes
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Monocular Cues

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  • part of “constancy” principle
  • we perceive the form of familiar objects as constant even while our retinal images of them change
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Shape Constancy

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  • part of “constancy” principle
  • we perceive the size of familiar objects as constant even while our retinal images of them change
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Size Constancy

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a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

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Perceptual Set

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interposition, relative height, relative size, linear perspective

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Monocular Cues

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retinal disparity and convergence

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Binocular Cues

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