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Device that convert one kind of energy into another

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Transducers

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The process of detecting physical energies with sensory organs

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Sensation

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Mental process of organising sensation into meaningful patterns

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Perception

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Study of relationship between physical stimuli and sensations they evoke in a human observer

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Psychophysics

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The minimum amount of physical energy necessary to produce a sensation

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Absolute threshold

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A decrease in sensory response to an unchanging stimulus

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Sensory adaptation

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Separation of sensory information into important elements

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Sensory analysis

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Basic elements of a stimulus, such as lines, shapes, edges or colours

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Perceptual features

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Neural signals that sense organs use to transmit info to the brain

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Sensory coding

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The minimum difference between two stimuli that is detectable to an observer

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Difference threshold

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Giving priority to a particular incoming sensory message (focus on book while not noticing the sensation of back against chair)

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Selective attention

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A failure to notice a stimulus because attention in focused elsewhere

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Inattentional blindness

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Type of sensation you experience depends on which area the brain is activated

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Sensory localisation

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Narrow spread of the electromagnetic spectrum to which the eyes respond

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Visible spectrum

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Basic colour categories corresponding differently to light wavelengths

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Hue

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Degree to which wavelengths of light are “pure” or “mixed”

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Saturation

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Amplitude/height of light waves

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Brightness

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Coloured circular muscle that controls amount of light entering eye

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Iris

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Opening at front of eye through which light passes

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Pupil

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Transparent membrane covering the front of the eye - bends light rays inwards

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Cornea

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Structure in the eye that focuses on light rays

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Lens

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Changes in shape of the lens of the eye to focus light on the retina

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Accomodation

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Four Visual Problems

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Hyperopia, Myopia, Astigmatism, Presbyopia

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Hyperopia

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Difficulty focusing on nearby objects (farsighted)

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Myopia

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Difficulty focusing on far away objects (nearsighted)

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Astigmatism

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Corneal or lens defect - causes some area to be out of focus

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Presbyopia

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Difficulty focusing cause by loss of flexibility in lens due to ageing

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Light sensitive layer at back of the eye

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Retina

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Light sensitive cells in the retina

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Photoreceptors

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Photoreceptors - colors and bright light - 5 million in each eye

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Cones

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Photoreceptors - dim light - produce black and white - about 120 million in each eye

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Rods

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Area of retina lacking photoreceptors

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Blind spot

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Sharpness of visual perception

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Visual acuity

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Area at center of retina containing only cone (sharp image) containing only cones

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Fovea

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Vision at edges of visual field

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Peripheral vision

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Loss of peripheral vision

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Tunnel vision

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Colour vision theory that states we have 3 cone types: red, green and blue (other colours are a combination of these)

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Trichronatic theory

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Theory of colour vision based on three coding systems (red/green, yellow/blue, black/white)

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Opponent process theory

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Visual sensation that remains after stimulus is removed

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Afterimage

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Inabikity to perceive colours; lack cones or malfunctioning cones

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Colour blindness

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Inability to distinguish some colours (red-green most common - more in men than women - sex-linked - recessive)

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Colour weakness

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Test for colour blindness and colot weakness

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Ishihara test

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Increased retinal sensitivity to light after entering the dark; going from daylight into dark movie theatre

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Dark adaptation

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Light-sensitive pigment in rods - involved with night vision

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Rhodopsin

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Blindness under low-light conditions

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Night blindness

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Rhythmic movement of air molecules

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Soundwaves

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Number of waves per second; corresponds to perceived higher/lower pitch

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Frequency

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Physical sound intensity - corresonds to perceived loudness

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Amplitude

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Visible part of external (outer) ear

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Pinna

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Tympanic membrane

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Eardrum

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Three small bones that vibrates - links eardrum with cochlea (middle ear)

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Auditory ossicles - malleus (hammer), incus (anvil), stapes (stirrup)

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Snail shaped organ that makes up inner ear

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Cochlea

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Receptor cells within cochlea that transduce vibrations into nerve impulses

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Hair cells

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As pitch rises, nerve impulses of a corresponding frequency are fed into auditoy nerve - tones up to 4000 Hz are converted into nerve impulses that match the frequency of each tone

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Frequency theory

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Higher and lower tones excite specific areas of cochlea

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Place theory

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Poor transfer of sounds from eardrum to inner ear - compensate with amplifier (hearing aid)

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Conductive hearing loss

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Caused by damage to hair cells or auditory nerver - hearing aids offer little help -

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Sensorineural Hearing Loss

58
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Electronic device that stimulates auditory nerves directly

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Cochlear implant

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Damage caused bg exposing hair cells to excessively loud sounds, typical at rock concerts - by 65, 40% of hair cells are gone

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Noice-Induced Hearing Loss

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Sense of smell

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Olfaction

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Odors are related to shapes of chemicals and molecules

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Lock-and-key theory

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Loss or impairment of sense of smelo

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Dysosmia

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Sense of taste

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Gustation

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Most to least sensitive taste sensation

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Bitter, sour, salt, sweet

65
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Possible fifth tatse sensation

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Umami

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Taste receptor cells

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Taste buds

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Sensation produced by skin, muscle, joint, viscera, organs of balance

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Somesthetic senses

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Light touch, pressure, pain, cold, warmth - specialised receptors detect touch, pressure, pain, temperature - number of receptor relates to sensitivity

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Skin senses (touch)

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Detect body position and movement

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Kinesthetic

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Control balance, acceleration and gravity (in inner ear)

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Vestibular senses

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Type of pain: Pain carried by large nerve fibers; sharp, bright, fast pain that tells you body damage is occuring (ie. Knife cut)

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Warning system

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Type of pain: Small nerve fibers; slower, nagging, aching; widespread, gets worae if stimulus is repeated, remind brain that body is injured

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Reminding system

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Pain messages from different nerve fibers pass through same neural gate in spinal cord - if gate is closed by warning system message, reminding system messages cannot enter - explains pain-killing effects if acupuncture + counter irritation (self inflicted mild warning pain to lessen impact of reminding pain)

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Gate control theory

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Can fear increase pain (T/F)

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T

75
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If you can regulate a painful stimulus, you have control over it (T/F)

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T

76
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Distraction cannot significantly reduce pain (T/F)

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F

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Interpretation you give a stimulus affects pain (T/F)

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T

78
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(Vestibular system) Sensitive to movement, acceleration and gravity

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Otolith organs

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Fluid-filled tubes in ears that are sensory organs for balancw

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Semicircular canals

80
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“Float” that detects movement in semi circular canals

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Crista

81
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Is motion sickness related to vestibular system? (T/F)

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T

82
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Motion sickness reults from a mismatch beteeen information from vision, vestibular system and kinesthesis - after spinning and stopping, fluid in semicircular canals still spinning but head is not - mismatch leads to sickness

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Sensory conflict theory

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How we assemble sensation into meaningful patterns

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Perception

84
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Mental model of external events that are actively created by your brain

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Perceptual constructions

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Perceptual miscontruction

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Illusion

86
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Perception with no basis in external reality

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Hallucination

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Obtaining additional information to check your perceptions

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Reality testing

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Analysing info starting at the bottom and going upwards to form a complete perception

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Bottom-up processing

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Pre-existing knowlesge used to rapidly organise features into a meaningful whole

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Top-down processing

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(Gestalt Principles) - part of a stimulus -stands out as an object (figure) against a plainer background (ground)

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Figure-ground organisation

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(Gestalt Principles) Figure and ground that can be reversed

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Reversible figure

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(Gestalt Principles) Stimuli that are near each other tend to be grouped together

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Nearness

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(Gestalt Principles) Stimuli similar in size, shape, colour or form tends to be group together

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Similarity

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(Gestalt Principles) Perception tend toward simplicity and continuity

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Continuity

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(Gestalt Principles) Tendency to complete a figure so it has a consistent overall form

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Closure

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(Gestalt Principles) nearness in time ajd space- perceived that one thing causes another

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Contiguity

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(Gestalt Principles) Stimuli found within common area tend to be grouped

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Common region

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Initial plan/guess about how to actively guide or interpretation of sensations

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Perceptual hypothesis

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Patterns allowing more than one interpretation

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Ambiguous stimuli

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Two dimensional pattern that cannot he organised into a stable, consistent or meaningful three-dimensional perception

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Impossible figure

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Perceived size of an object remains constant, despite changes in retinal image size

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Size constancy

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Perceived shape of an object is unaffected by changes in retinal image

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Shape constancy

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Apparent brightness of an object stays the same under changing lighting condition

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Brightness constancies

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Ability to see three dimensionao space and to accurately judge distances

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Depth perception

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Features of environment and messages from body that supply info about distance and space

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Depth cues

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Discrepancy in images that reach the right and left eyes

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Retinal disparity

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Fusion of two different retinal images into one overall 3-d image - powerful sensation of depth (like closing one one eyes, you see from a diff perspective and vice versa, but when both eyes open - can see everything)

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Stereoscopic vision

108
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Degree to which the two eyes must turn inward to focus on an object

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Convergence

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