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chapter 4 vocab Flashcards

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absolute threshold

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the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% OF THE TIME

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Accommodation

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involves altering one’s existing schemas, or ideas, as a result of new information or new experiences

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Audition

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the sense or act of hearing

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basilar membrane

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runs the length of the spiral cochlea, holds the auditory receptors, called hair cells

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blind spot

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point where the optic nerve leaves eye, there are are no receptors cells there

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binocular depth cues

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clues about distance based on differing views of the two eyes

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bottom-up processing

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analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up the brains integration of sensory information

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change blindness

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a phenomenon of visual perception that occurs when a stimulus undergoes a change without it being noticed by the observer

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cocktail party effect

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the ability to focus one’s attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli

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Cochlea

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a snail-shaped tube in the inner ear, where the physical stimuli of the sound wave is converted into a neural impulse.

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depth perception

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involves interpretation of visual cues that indicate how near or far away objects are

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Cones

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retinal receptor cells that are concentrated near the center of the retina and that function in daylight or in well-lit conditions, distinguishes colors

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difference threshold

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also known as just noticeable difference, the minimum difference a person can detect between any two stimuli half the time

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feature detectors

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nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle, movement

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fovea

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the retina’s area of central focus

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frequency theory

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The rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone; enabling us to sense its pitch.

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gate-control theory

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a mechanism which pain signals can be sent up to the brain to be processed to accentuate the perceived pain

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Gestalt

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the different ways individuals group stimuli together in order to make a whole that makes sense to them.
proximity, similarity, continuity, connectedness, and closure.

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gustatory system -

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the sensory for taste

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inattentional blindness

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failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

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Kinesthesis

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the perception of body movements

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Iris

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a colored muscle that adjusts light intake

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Lens

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focusing incoming light rays into an image

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middle ear

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carry sound waves from the outer ear to the inner ear,

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olfactory system

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the sensory system for smell

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opponent processing theory

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Ewald Hering, the theory that opposing retinal processes enable color vision (red-green, yellow-blue)

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parallel processing

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the processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneously, brain’s natural mode of information processing

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perceptual constancy

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consistency, a tendency to experience a stable perception in the face of a continually changing sensory input

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phi phenomenon

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the illusion of movement created by presenting visual stimuli in rapid succession

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Perception

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the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events

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perceptual set

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a readiness to perceive a stimulus in a particular way

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place theory

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presumes that we hear different pitches because different sound waves trigger activity at different places

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Priming

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the activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one’s perception, memory, or response

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Retina

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a multilayered tissue on the eyeball’s sensitive inner surface

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Psychophysics

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the study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli and our psychological experience of them

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Pupil

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a small adjustable opening

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Rods

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retinal receptors that detect black, white, gray, necessary for peripheral and twilight vision, when cone doesn’t respond

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Sensation

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the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment

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selective attention

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the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

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sensory adaptation

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our diminishing sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus

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signal detection theory

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a theory predicting how and when we detect the presence of a faint stimulus (signal) and background stimulation (noise)

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Subliminal

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below one’s absolute threshold for conscious awareness

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top-down processing

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construct perceptions drawing on sensations coming bottom-up to their brain and on experience and expectations

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Transduction

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conversion of one form of energy into another

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trichromatic theory

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three color theory, that the retina contains 3 different color receptors, when stimulate in combination can produce the perception of any color, the cones do their color magic in teams of 3

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vestibular sense

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the movement, gravity, balance sense that allows us to move smoothly

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visual illusion

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involves an apparently inexplicable discrepancy between the appearance of a visual stimulus and its physical reality

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Weber’s Law

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computes the difference threshold/just noticeable difference, the change needed is proportional to the the original intensity of the stimulus

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