Modules 16-17

Question 1

awareness of a stimulus from our environment

Answer 1

Sensation

Question 2

interpreting a stimulus from our environment

Answer 2

Perception

Question 3

starts at sensory receptors and works up to higher levels of processing

Answer 3

Bottom-Up Processing

Question 4

Perceptions from sensory input by drawing experiences and expectations

Answer 4

Top-Down processing

Question 5

focusing on awareness of a specific stimulus

Answer 5

Selective attention

Question 6

Many voices happening at a party, but able to pick up your own name out of everyone talking

Answer 6

Cocktail party effect

Question 7

not seeing other things when our attention is focused on smthn else

Answer 7

Inattentional blindness

Question 8

Failing to see smthn change`

Answer 8

Change blindness

Question 9

Converting energy to another type that the brain can use

Answer 9

Transduction

Question 10

Minimum stimulation is needed to detect a specific stimulus 50% of the time

Answer 10

Absolute Threshold

Question 11

Predicts when we will detect weak signals

Answer 11

Signal detection theory

Question 12

Stimuli you cannot detect 50 percent of the time

Answer 12

Subliminal

Question 13

unconsciously activating certain associationes

Answer 13

Priming

Question 14

minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50% of the time

Answer 14

Difference threshold

Question 15

The principle is that in order for something to be seen as different, it must differ by a constant minimum percentage

Answer 15

Weber’s Law

Question 16

as you get used to something, the feeling of it disappears

Answer 16

Sensory adaptation

Question 17

Set of mental tendencies and assumptions that greatly affect what we percieve

Answer 17

Perpectual set