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mental processes exist because they serve an evolutionarily purpose, they aid in survival and reproduction

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Evolutionary

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Brain applies what it knows and expects to perceive sensory information

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Top down processing

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with Weber, founder of psycho physics who studied the relations between physical changes and perceived changes in stimuli

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Gustav Fechner

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The influence of genetics and brain chemistry (physical and biological processes)

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Biological

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Demonstrated how specialized cells in the brain respond to visual information

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David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel

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The study of relationship between physical energy and psychological experiences

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Psychophysics

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Is the process by which sensory receptors receive information from the environment

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Sensation

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Is the process of converting physical energy into electrical signals

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transduction

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founder of psychophysics who investigated the just noticeable difference and proposed ___’ law

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Ernst Weber

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The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting sensations, enabling you to recognize meaningful objects and events

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perception

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Build up from the smallest pieces of sensory information

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Bottom up processing

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colored muscle surrounding the pupil that regulates the size of the pupil opening

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Iris

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light sensitive surface in the back of the eye containing rods and cones

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Retina

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structure behind the pupil that changes shape to focus on near or far objects by adjusting how light hits the retina

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Lens

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small adjustable opening in the iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness

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Pupil

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The point where you notice that a stimulus is present. The minimal stimulation required for a particular stimulus to be detected 50% of the time

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Absolute threshold

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transparent, curved layer in the front of the eye that bends incoming light rays

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cornea

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maintains that minimum threshold varies with fatigue, attention, expectations, motivation, emotional distress, and from one person to another

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Signal detection theory

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vision at higher light levels and capable of color vision

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cones

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The size of the JND is directly proportional to the strength of the original stimulus

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Weber’s law

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Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information

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Parallel processing

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The point where you can detect the difference between stimuli

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Just Noticeable Difference (JND)

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The smallest change in stimulation that a person can detect 50% of the time

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Difference threshold

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images that remains visible after viewing an object. A negative after image reverse the colors in the original image

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Afterimages

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specialized nerve cells in the visual cortex respond to particular elements like shape, movement, edges, and angles

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Feature detectors

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The retina has receptors for three opposing pairs of colors: white-black, red-green, and yellow-blue

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Opponent processing theory

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The retina has three color receptors that are sensitive to red green and blue light

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trichromatic theory

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processes black, white and gray light, vision at lower light levels

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Rods

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The smell center of the brain, which receives and processes chemical information from the olfactory nerve

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Olfactory bulb

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Bundle of retinal ganglion axons that carries information from the eye to the thalamus

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optic nerve

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area in eye with no receptor cells

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blind spot

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The chemical sense of smell with receptors in a mucous membrane to the roof of the nasal cavity

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olfaction

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specialized light sensitive neurons in the retina that converts light into neural impulses; includes rods and cones

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photoreceptors

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body sense of equilibrium with hairlike receptors in semicircular canals and vestibular sac in the inner eye / it allows balance and body posture

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vestibular sense

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body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of your body with receptors in muscles, tendons, and joints

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kinesthesis

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pain is experienced only if the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain

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gate-control theory

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the rate of the neural impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone, enabling you to sense its pitch. Explains well how you hear low-pitched sounds

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frequency theory

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the position on the basilar membrane at which waves reach their peak depends on the frequency of a tone.
Accounts well for higher-pitched sounds

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place theory

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axons of neurons in the cochlea converge transmitting sound messages

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auditory nerve

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the process by which you determine the location of a sound

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sound localization

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includes the cochlea, semicircular canals, and vestibular sacs

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inner ear

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includes three tiny bones: the hammer, anvil, and stirrup

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middle ear

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the chemical sense of taste with receptor cells in the taste buds

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gustation

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snail shaped fluid filled tube in the inner ear with hair cells on the basilar membrane that transduce mechanical energy of vibrating molecules to the electrochemical energy of neural impulses / produces nerve impulses in response to sound vibrations

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cochlea

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includes the pinna, the auditory canal, and the eardrum

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outer ear

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the highness or lowness of a sound. The shorter the wavelength, the higher the frequency, the higher the pitch. The longer the wavelength, the lower the frequency, the lower the pitch

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pitch

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the # of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given amount of time (determine the pitch of a sound)

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frequency

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the process of transducing acoustic energy into perceivable sound (hearing)

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audtion

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the study of paranormal phenomena such as extrasensory perception and psychokinesis

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parapsychology

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focus on one stimulus will lead to between blind to other stimuli change blindness=miss changes)

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inattentional blindness

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ability to focus on a particular sound while partial filtering out other sounds

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cocktail party effect

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the figure is what is focused on and the ground is the blurry background which is likely ignored

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figure ground pattern

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focused awareness of only a limited aspect of all you are capable of experiencing

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selective attention

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we perceive the form of familiar obiects as constant even while our retinas receive changing images of them

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shape and size constancies

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occurs when we ourselves are the moving objects. Objects that are fixed in one place appear to move along with us

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relative motion

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an optical illusion consisting of two line segments, one with arrows pointing inward and one with arrows points outward. Though both lines are of equal length, the line with the
inward-pointing arrows is typically perceived to be longer

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muller-lyer illusion

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laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants

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visual cliff

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the difference between he images seen by each eye, which can be used to gauge distance

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retinal disparity

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clues about distance based on the image of one eye

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monocular cues

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clues about distance requiring two eyes

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binocular clues

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tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

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grouping

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ability to differentiate an obiect from its background

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figure-ground

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the process of integrating and interpreting sensory data

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perception

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predisposition to perceive things in a certain way (notice certain aspects of an object/situation while ignoring other details

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perceptual set

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reduced sensitivity to a stimulus after constant exposure to it

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sensory adaptation

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the human visual system can process up to 10 to 12 images per second and still perceive the images as individual pictures. The
movement of a series of pictures at a rate that suggests motion is called stroboscopic movement

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phi phenomenon

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a subfield of psychology that suggests that the brain forms a perceptual whole that is greater than the sum of its parts

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gestalt physcology

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