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Perception

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Process of organizing & interpreting sensory info, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects& events

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Sensation

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The process by which our sensory receptors & nervous system receive & represent stimulus energies from our environment

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Bottom-up processing

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Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors & works up to the brains integration of sensory info

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Top-down processing

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Info processing guided by higher level mental processes through experience/expectations

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Prosopagnosia

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Complete sensation but incomplete perception, can’t recognize faces, no top down process

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Psychophysics

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Study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli (intensity) and psychological experience of them

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Absolute threshold

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Minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time

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Signal detection theory

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Theory predicting how/when we detect the presence of a faint stimulus “signal” background stimulation “noise”

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Subliminal

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Below ones absolute threshold for conscious awareness

Influences our behavior but doesn’t change it

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Priming

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The activation, of certain associations, predisposing ones perception, memory or responses

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Difference threshold

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The minimum difference between 2 stimuli required for detection 50% of the time

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Webers law

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The principle that, to be perceived as difference, 2 stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage (rather than a constant amount)

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Sensory adaptation

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Diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation

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Transduction

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Conversion of one form of energy into another/ encode physical energy as neural signals

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Wavelength

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Distance from the peak of one light or sound wave to the peak of the next

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Hue

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Dimension of color that is determined by the wavelength of light; what we know as the color name (blue,green)

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Intensity

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Amount if energy in a light/sound wave, which we perceive as brightness/loudness as determined by the waves amplitude

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Pupil

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The adjustable opening in the center of the eye through which light enters

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Iris

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A ring of muscle tissue that forms the colored portion of the eye around the pupil & controls the size of the pupil opening

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Lens

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Transparent structure behind the pupil that changes shape to help focus images on the retina

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Accommodation

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Process by which the eyes lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina

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Retina

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Light-sensitive inner surface of the eye, containing the receptor rods and cones plus layers of neurons that begin the processing of visual information

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Acuity

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Sharpness of vision

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Nearsightedness

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A condition which near objects are seen more clearly than faraway objects

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Farsightedness

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Condition in which faraway objects are seen more clearly than near objects

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Rods

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Retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray; necessary for peripheral and twilight light vision

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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 conditions

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Optic nerve

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The nerve that carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain

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Blind spot

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The point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye, creating a “blind” spot because no receptor cells are located there

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Fovea

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Central focal point in the retina, around which the eyes come cluster

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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 or movement

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Blindsight

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Experiencing blindness in part of their field of vision

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Young-helmholtz trichromatic (3 color) theory

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Theory that the retina contains 3 different color receptors 1=red 1=green 1=blue

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Opponent-process theory

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Theory that opposing retinal processes (red-green, yellow-blue, white-black) enable color vision

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Color constancy

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Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelengths reflected by the object

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Audition

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The sense or act of hearing

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Frequency

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of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time (per second)

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Pitch

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A tones experienced high/lowness; depends I. Frequency

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Middle ear

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Chamber between the eardrum and cochlea containing 3 tiny bones (hammer, anvil, stirrup)

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Cochlea

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Coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear through which sound waves trigger nerve impulses

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Inter ear

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Inner most part of a ear, containing cochlea, semicircular canals and vestibular sacs

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Place theory

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In hearing, the theory that links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea membrane is stimulated

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Frequency theory

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In Hearing the theory that the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone, this enabling us to sense it’s pitch

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Condition hearing loss

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Hearing loss caused by damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea

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Sensorineural heading loss

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Hearing loss caused by damage to the cochlea receptor cells or to the auditory nerves, nerve deafness

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Cochlear implant

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Device for converting sounds into electrical signals and stimulating the auditory nerve through electrodes threaded into the cochlea

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Gate-control theory

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Theory that the spinal cord contains a neurological “gate” that blocks pain signals/allows them to pass on to he brain

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Sensory interaction

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The principle that 2 senses may influence another, as when the smell of food influences it’s taste

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McGurk effect

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The body’s compensation of hearing and seeing 2 different things

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Olfaction

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Sense of smell

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Synaethesia

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One sort of sensation produces another

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Kinesthesis

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The system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts

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Vestibular sense

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The sense of body movement and position, including the sense of balance

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Parallel processing

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Processing several aspects of a problem simultaneously

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