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Lecture 3: Sensation And Perception Flashcards

1
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What are the types of stimulus energy?

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  1. Light
  2. Smell
  3. Sound
  4. Touch
  5. See
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What are the sensory receptors?

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  1. Eyes
  2. Ears
  3. Nose
  4. Mouth
  5. Skin
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3
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What are neural impulses?

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Signals transmitted by sensory receptors

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4
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What areas does the brain contain?

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  1. Visual
  2. Auditory
  3. Olfactory
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5
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What is sensation?

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Stimulation of organs

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6
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What is perception?

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Selection, organization and interpretation of sensory input

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What is Psychophysics?

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Study of how physical stimuli are translated into psychological experience

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What is a threshold?

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Dividing point between detectable and undetectable energy levels

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9
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What is an absolute threshold?

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Minimum stimulation detectable 50% of the time
Example: Candle light seen 50KM away

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What is a noticeable difference?

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Smallest difference in stimulation that a sense can detect

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What is Weber’s Law?

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Noticeable difference is a constant proportion of the initial stimulus

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12
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What is Signal Detection Theory?

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Detection of stimuli involves decision process influenced by factors besides intensity

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13
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What is subliminal perception?

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Registration of sensory input without conscious awareness

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14
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What is reversible figure?

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Drawing with two interpretations that can be shifted back and forth

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15
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What is perceptual set?

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Readiness to see a stimulus in a certain way

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16
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What is Change blindness?

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Failure to see obvious change in environment

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17
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What is inattentional blindness?

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Failure to see unexpected visual objects or events

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18
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What is feature analysis?

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Process of detecting elements in visual awareness and assembling them

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19
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What are the elements of sensation and perception?

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  1. Good figure
  2. Ground
  3. Proximity
  4. Closure
  5. Similarity
  6. Continuation
  7. Symmetry
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20
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What is distal stimulus?

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Stimulus in the distance

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What is proximal stimulus?

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Stimulus energies directly on sensory receptors

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What is Perceptual hypothesis?

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Guesses for which distance stimuli could be responsible for sensed proximal stimuli

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23
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What is depth perception?

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Visual cues indicating nearness or fairness of an object

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What is binocular depth cues?

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Different angles of light entering eyes to determine closeness or farness

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25
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What is retinal disparity?

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Retinas projecting slightly different image locations on each eye

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26
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What is monocular depth cues?

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Judging distance using one eye

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27
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What is motion parallax?

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Images of objects at different distances moving across the retina at different paces

28
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What is pictorial depth cues?

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Clues about distance in flat line picture

29
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What is linear perspective?

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Lines coverage in the distance

30
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What is texture gradients?

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Up close has richer texture than far away

31
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What is interposition?

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Object between you and another object must be closer

32
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What is relative size?

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Things appear smaller from farther away

33
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What is height in plane?

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Distance objects appear high

34
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What is light and shadow?

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Visual cues for perceiving depth and form

35
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What is Visual illusions?

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Exploiting how our brains interpret visual cues

36
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What is sound?

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Wave of molecules impacting ear drums and producing nerve signals

37
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What is the outer ear?

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Receives vibrations from mediums?

38
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What are eardrum?

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Translates vibration into movement of middle ear bones

39
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What is basilar membrane?

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  1. Lengths of cochlea
  2. Holds auditory receptors
40
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What are auditory signals?

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  1. Routed through thalamus
  2. Auditory cortex in temporal lobe
41
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What is place theory?

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Perception of pitch corresponds to different vibrations in basilar membrane

42
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What is frequency theory?

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Pitch corresponds to rate at which basilar membrane vibrates

43
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How does localize the source of sound work?

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Difference in arrival times at each ear helps determine sound location

44
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What is light?

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Form of electromagnetic radiation, changes in amplitude and wavelength

45
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What is pupil?

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Regulation amount of light entering the eye

46
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What is the lens?

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Changes shape to focus light on the retina

47
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What is visual input?

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Processed by primary visual cortex and other cortical areas

48
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What is ventral (bottom)?

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Spatial awareness of form and colour to identify objects

49
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What is dorsal (top)?

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Spatial awareness of object locations

50
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What is Visual perception?

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Creating a model of objects in the environment

51
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What is vision action?

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Using vision to find objects and move the body

52
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What is colour?

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  1. Subtractive and additive colour mixing
  2. Trichromatic colour vision
53
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What are complimentary colours?

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Pairs of colours that produce grey tones when mixed

54
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What is after image?

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Visual image that persists after the original image is removed

55
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What is Opponent process theory?

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Colour perception depends on receptors with unfriendly responses to certain colour pairs

56
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What is taste?

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Signals transmitted by taste receptors on the tongue

57
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What is the taste system?

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Signals routed through thalamus and onto insular cortex in frontal lobe

58
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What is the Olfactory system?

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Signals sent to olfactory bulb in the brain, distinguishing 10,000 diff odours

59
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What are pheromones?

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Chemical messages sent and received by the same species

60
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What are the physical stimulations for touch? (They’re all impacting the skin)

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  1. Mechanical
  2. Thermal
  3. Chemical skin
61
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What are sensory adaptation?

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Fading of continuous stimuli applied to a specific spot

62
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Where are sensory signals routed?

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  1. Somatic nervous system
  2. Somatic sensory cortex
63
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Why is pain important?

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  1. Survival
  2. Signals potential harm
  3. Signals injury
64
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What is gate-controlled theory?

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Pain sensations pass through a gate in the spinal cord

65
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What is synesthesia?

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Condition where perceptual activities trigger non-modal sensory experiences

66
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What is Prosopagnosia?

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Inability to recognize faces

67
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What is phantom limb syndrome?

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Sensation of pain in a limb that doesn’t exist

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