Midterms

Question 1

A direct and specific experience that arises from the stimulation of a sense organ

Answer 1

Sensation

Question 2

Systems that are widespread throughout the body that detect the world

Answer 2

Receptors

Question 3

External receptors

Answer 3

Exteroceptors

Question 4

Internal receptors, detects what’s inside the body. Also our body’s ability to sense movement, action, and location.

Answer 4

Interoceptors and Proprioception

Question 5

A detectable input from the environment that aids us in obtaining information, resulting in a functional activity.

Answer 5

Stimulus

Question 6

What are the 2 types of stimulus

Answer 6

Internal and External

Question 7

The process by which our sensitivity
diminishes when an object constantly
stimulate our senses.

Answer 7

Sensory Adaptation

Question 8

The conversion of physical into
neural information

Answer 8

Transduction

Question 9

A type of sensation with the senses of touch and hearing on this for external stimuli.

Answer 9

Mechanoreception

Question 10

A type of sensation with chemical senses of taste and smell.

Answer 10

Chemoreception

Question 11

A type of sensation with the process which the visual system transfer light energy that occur naturally in the form of wavelengths into neural messages via the eyes.

Answer 11

Visuoperceptal

Question 12

The lowest intensity level of a stimulus a
person can detect half of the time

Answer 12

Absolute Threshold

Question 13

Minimum difference that a
person can detect between
two stimuli 50% at a time

Answer 13

Difference Threshold

Question 14

A model for predicting how
and when a person will detect
weak stimuli, partly based on context

Answer 14

Signal Detection Theory

Question 15

This is the process that makes sense of the sensory information that we receive from our surroundings.

Answer 15

Perception

Question 16

Our perceptions are constructed from
sensory input.

Answer 16

Bottom-up processing

Question 17

Basing our interpretation on
our understanding of the world, past
experiences and beliefs that shapes
how we interpret those feelings

Answer 17

Top-down processing

Question 18

List 3 of the identified human senses relating to sight, sound, and taste.

Answer 18

Visual, Auditory, and Gustatory Perception

Question 19

List 3 of the identified human senses relating to smell, touch, and balance.

Answer 19

Olfactory, Tactile Perception, and Vestibular Sense

Question 20

Also known as kinesthesia, our sense of self-movement

Answer 20

Proprioception

Question 21

A gestalt principle stating that perceiving complex visual information as groups of like things. If objects are similar in size, shape, color, brightness, or other shared attributes, humans perceive them as groups and not randomly separate objects.

Answer 21

Similarity

Question 22

Things that are close together appear to be more related than things that are spaced farther apart

Answer 22

Proximity

Question 23

when visual elements are aligned with each other, our visual perception is biased to perceive them as continuous forms rather than disconnected segments.

Answer 23

Continuity

Question 24

Elements enclosed by a common boundary are perceived as a single entity.

Answer 24

Inclusiveness

Question 25

To perceive incomplete or fragmented visual elements as a complete object.

Answer 25

Closure

Question 26

To perceive and interpret complex images in the simplest form possible.

Answer 26

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