chapter 6 Flashcards
1
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sensation
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the awareness of properties of an object or event when a sensory receptor is stimulated
2
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perception
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the act of organizing & interpretting sensory input as a signaling particular object or event
3
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psycho physics
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-studies relationship between physical stimuli & the sensation & perception that those stimuli effect
4
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thresholds
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-absolute threshold: the strength or amount of a stimulus for you to detect if it is there (50% of time
5
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the weakest amount of stimulus that a person can detect 50% of the time
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