Chapter 4 - Sensation And Perception

Question 1

Synthesia is

Answer 1

“Mixing of senses”

Question 2

Sensory adaptation

Answer 2

Reputed are constant stimulation to decrease the number of sensory messages sent to the brain from the sense receptors

Question 3

Bodies natural pain killers

Answer 3

Endorphins

Question 4

Phantom limb pain

Answer 4

Occurs because neurons send conflicting messages to the brain

How it works…. They put a mirror in front of the missing limb

Question 5

Vestibular sense:

Answer 5

Responsible for balance

Question 6

Kinesthetic sense:

Answer 6

Is the sense that provides the brain with information about bodily posture orientation and movement

Question 7

PERCEPTION:

Answer 7

The higher level process of selecting organizing and interpreting dating sensory data into useful mental representations of the world

Question 8

Feature detectors:

Answer 8

Specialize brain cells that respond only to certain sensory information

Question 9

Habituation

Answer 9

The tendency of that brain to ignore environmental factors that remain constant

Question 10

Figure groud

Answer 10

The ground is always seen as further away than the object

Question 11

Visual cliff experiment

Answer 11

It seems like you’re about to fall off a cliff when in reality it’s a glass

Question 12

What are the 4 PERCEPTUAL CONSTANCIES

Answer 12

1. Size constancy
2. Shake constancy
3. Colour constancy
4. Brightness constancy

Question 13

Binocular cues:

Retinal disparity and convergence disparity

Answer 13

Retinal disparity: each eye sees something differently

Convergence disparity: helps judge dept

Question 14

Monocular cues

1. Linear perspective

Answer 14

Parallel lines converge or angle towards one another as they receded into the distance

Question 15

Monocular cues

2. Interposition

Answer 15

Objects that obscure or overlap other objects are perceived as closer

Question 16

Monocular cues

3. Relative size

Answer 16

Close objects cast a larger retinal image than distant objects

Question 17

Monocular cues

4. Texture gradient

Answer 17

Nearby objects have a coarser and more distant texture that distant ones

Question 18

Monocular cues

5. Aerial perspective

Answer 18

Distant objects appear hazy and blurred compared with close objects because of intervening atmospheric dust or haze

Question 19

Monocular cues

6. Light and shadow

Answer 19

Brighter objects are perceived as closed that darker objects

Question 20

Monocular cues:

7. Relative height

Answer 20

Objects positioned higher in our field of vision are perceived as father away

Question 21

Perceptual set

Answer 21

Our previous experiences, assumptions, and expectations also affect how we interpret and perceive the world by creating a perceptual set

Question 22

Extra sensory perception

Answer 22

Claim to be able to read people’s minds

Question 23

Meta-analysis

Answer 23

Take several differently studies and you figure out a way to group them all together

Question 24

Subliminal perception

Answer 24

Picking something up with out realizing (putting no effort into it)

Question 25

What’s the definition of sensation?

Answer 25

The process of receiving translating and transmitting raw sensory data from the external and internal environments to the brain