Psych Flashcards
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The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events
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Perception
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The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from out environment
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Sensation
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Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brains integration of sensory information
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Bottom up processing
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Information processing guided by higher level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experiences and expectations
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Top down processing
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The study of relationship between the physical characteristics of stimuli such as their intensity and our psychological experience of them
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Psychophysics
