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1
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What is sensation?

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Detection of stimuli (physical), goes to the brain

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What is perception?

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Interpretation of sensory input

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What is bottom-up processing?

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Start with the individual elements that make up an object, put them together, and interpret as a whole

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What is top-down processing?

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Interpreting sensory information with existing knowledge, expectations, experience

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What is transduction?

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Process whereby the sensory info is converted to neural signals for the brain to interpret

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What is a stimulus?

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Any detectable input from the environment

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What is an absolute threshold?

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The minimum amount of stimulation that can be detected (50% of the time)

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What is sensory adaption?

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A decline in sensitivity due to constant stimulation

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The sense of hearing is associated with what system?

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The auditory system

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What are sound waves?

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Vibrations of molecules that travel through a medium, such as air

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How is sound measured?

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In decibels (dB)

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Sounds can be described in _____

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amplitude

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How can sounds be described? And how is it measured?

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In terms of their frequency; cycles per second or hertz (Hz)

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14
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Pitch depends on what?

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Frequency

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The sense of taste is associated with what system?

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Gustatory System

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What are gustatory receptors?

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Clusters of taste cells found in the taste buds

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What are the 5 different types of how we perceive taste?

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Sweet; salty; sour; bitter; umami

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What animal relies heavily on their taste buds?

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Catfish

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What system is associated with sense of smell?

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The Olfactory System

20
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In the olfactory system what are stimuli?

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Chemical substances

21
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What are the receptors in the olfactory system?

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Olfactory cilia (hair) to olfactory bulb to other parts of the brain

22
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Name an animal that uses the Jacobson’s organ (aka the vomeronasal)?

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Snakes

23
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What is the Flehmen’s response?

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When animals use their Jacobson’s organ to “smell” the pheromones of other animals

24
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What system is associated with the sense of touch?

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The tactile system

25
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What parts of the brain does the tactile system activate?

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Thalamus -> parietal lobe

26
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Anything that comes in contact with skin is considered to be what?

A

Tactile stimulation

27
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Tactile system is activated by what 3 senses/feelings?

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Temperature, pressure, and pain

28
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Higher order processes matter (e.g. being tickled will effect mood) in what system?

A

Tactile system

29
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Spiders use the vibrations of their web for what?

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Status of web (health or if they’ve captured anything); Courtship; territory defense

30
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The visual system is associated with what sense?

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Sense of sight

31
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What is the visual system?

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The sensory system for sight

32
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What is the stimulus for the visual system?

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Light

33
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How is light measured in the visual system?

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Nanometers (one billionth of a metre)

34
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What is the cornea?

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The eye’s outer layer

35
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Where is the lens located?

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Behind the pupil

36
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What is the lens?

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An elastic structure that focuses light to the optic nerve in the eye

37
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What is the retina?

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A multilayered tissue at the rear of the rear (light is focused/collected here

38
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What nerve connects what we see/perceive to the brain?

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Optic nerve

39
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What part of the brain would the eye be associated with?

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Occipital lobe

40
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What are rods?

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Receptor with key role in night vision and peripheral vision (concentrated around the edges of the eye)

41
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What are cones?

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Receptors with key role in daylight vision and colour vision (located in center of the retina)

42
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What is Gestalt psychology when it comes to perception?

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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts and humans have basic tendencies to actively organize what they see

43
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What type of psychology are ambiguous figure-ground relationships considered to be a part of?

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Gestalt Psychology

44
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What are the 4 Gestalt Laws of Organization?

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1) Law of similarity
2) Law of proximity
3) Law of closure
4) Law of continuity

45
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What are 3 perceptual constancies?

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Shape constancy; size constancy; brightness constancy

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