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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception Flashcards

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Sensation

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is what happens when our sensory modalities (vision, hearing, taste, etc.) are activated.

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Perception

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is how we understand these senses.

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Bottom up processing

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type of information processing based on incoming data from the environment to form a perception

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Top down processing

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Influences perception.

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Selective attention

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focused attention

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Inattentional Blindness

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the failure to notice a fully-visible, but unexpected object because attention was engaged on another task.

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Change blindness

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he phenomenon that occurs when a person viewing a visual scene apparently fails to detect large changes in the scene. (Gorilla passing by)

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Psychophysics

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The branch of psychology that deals with the relationships between physical stimuli and sensory.

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Absolute Threshold

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smallest amount of stimulus that has to present before reaction.

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Signal Detection Theory

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Patterns

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Subliminal

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(of a stimulus or mental process) below the threshold of sensation or consciousness; perceived by or affecting someone’s mind without their being aware of it.

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Priming

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a concept, not a theory in which the activation of one thought may trigger related thoughts

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Difference Threshold

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“The just noticeable difference”

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Weber’s Law

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he concept that a just-noticeable difference in a stimulus is proportional to the magnitude of the original stimulus.

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Sensory Adaption

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occurs when sensory receptors change their sensitivity to the stimulus

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Transduction

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Transformation of light INPUT into neural messages sent to the brain (occipital lobe)

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Wavelength

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Distance from one wave peak to the next.

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Hue

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This determines the HUE, or COLOR we see.

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Intensity

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Amount of energy in light waves, determines brightness.

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Pupil

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Light passes through.

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Iris

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Adjusts how much light is allowed in. Color of the eye.

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Lens

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Image is projected onto the retina.

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Feature Dectectors

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Facial recognition

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Parallel Processing

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Visual “Multi-Tasking”. Ability to recognize different aspects of vision all at once.

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Retina

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Light passes through the LENS and an image is projected onto the retina.

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Accomodation

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The lens changes shape.

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Rods

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Night vision

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Cones

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Color vision DIRECT link to brain.

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Optic Nerve

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Carries neural signals to the brain. Cross and go to the opposite side of brain.

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Blind spot

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Optic nerve leaves the eye.

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Fovea

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The retina’s area of central focus.

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Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic theory of color vision

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Cones interpret color in teams of three. Red, green and blue on the retina.

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Opponent Process Theory of color vision

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Color vision is created when 3 sets of colors oppose each other, Red-green, yellow-blue, white-black. One is turned ON other is OFF.

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Audition

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the act, sense, or power of hearing.

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Frequency

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Range

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Pitch

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High pitch and low pitch

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MIddle ear

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Begins with the eardrum at the end of the ear canal.

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Conducting hearing loss

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when hearing loss is due to problems with the ear canal, ear drum, or middle ear and its little bones (the malleus, incus, and stapes).

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Sensorineural hearing loss

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occurs from damage to the inner ear, the nerve that runs from the ear to the brain (auditory nerve), or the brain.

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Cochlear implant

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surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing.

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Cochlea

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Part of the inner ear. Has fluids.

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Inner ear

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the innermost part of the vertebrate ear.

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Place Theory

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We hear different pitches because different parts of the cochlear membrane are activated.

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Frequency theory

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explicates how the human brain basically experiences a representation system of hearing.

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Kinesthesis

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Sense of your body position and movement.

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Vestibular Sense

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Balances the body. (Fluids in your ear)

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Gate Control Theory of Pain

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The spinal cord has pain gates that open or close to allow or block pain.
Substance P: Is the pain signal

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Sensory Interaction

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refers to the interaction of the senses to each other and how they influence each other. Taste and smell are two senses that work together.

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Olfactory Sensation

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Eating and smelling are all connected to emotions.

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Gustatory Sensation

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Sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. The SUPERTASTERS.

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Gestalt

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An organized “Whole” combining senses “The big picture”

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Figure ground

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Figure is the ‘focus’ ground is everything else.

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Grouping

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Grouping stimuli together.

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Depth Perception

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Judging how far an object is from us 3D.

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Visual cliff

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Ability to judge a drop topography

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Binocular Cues

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Using both visual fields to determine distance.

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Monocular Cues

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Interposition and linear perspective by one eye.

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Phi Phenomenon

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Perfect eye coordinates.

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Perceptual Constancy

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We recognize objects even if they change.

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Color Constancy

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Knowing an objects color even if looking through tinted windows.

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Perceptual Set

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Mental predisposition that influences perception.

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Extrasensory Perception (ESP)

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Paranormal phenomena (Long Island Medium)

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Parapsychology

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is the supposedly scientific study of paranormal phenomena involving the human mind.

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Gustav Fechner

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founder of psychophysics

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David Hubel

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studied the structure and function of the visual cortex. Proved that neurons in the occipital lobe receive information from individual ganglion cells in the retina.

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Ernst Weber

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One of the founders of experimental psychology.

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Torsten Weisel

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Proved that neurons in the occipital lobe receive information from individual ganglion cells in the retina.

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