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Sensation - def

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detection of external stimuli & conversion into nervous system activity.

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Perception - def

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selection, organization, and interpretation of stimuli.

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Steps 1 & 2 of information processing are….4

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gathering, judging, learning, and remembering info.

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Psychophysics - def

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study of relationships between the physical attributes of stimuli and the psychological experiences they produce.

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Transducer - def

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a mechanism that converts energy from one form to another.

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Sense receptors - def

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specialized neural cells in the sense organs that change physical energy into neural impulses.

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Sensory threshold - def

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minimal intensity of stimulus energy required for the stimulus to be detected.

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Absolutely threshold - def

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lowest intensity of a stimulus that can be detected 50% of the time.

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Differential threshold - def

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level of change in a stimulus that can be detected 50% o the time (ability to distinguish between two different stimuli.)

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JND -

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Just noticeable difference.

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Dark Adaptation - def

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refers to the process in which the visual receptors become more sensitive with time spent in the dark.

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Sensory adaptation - def

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occurs when our sensory experience decreases with continued exposure to a stimulus.

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Signal detection theory - def

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states that stimulus detection is a decision making process of determining if a signal exists against a background of noise.

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Vision - stimulus - ?

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light.

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White light is the highest saturation. T/F?!

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FALSE. It is the lowest.

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3 Physical Characteristics of light -

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Wave Amplitude, Wavelength, and Wave Purity.

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Wave Amplitude - def

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brightness.

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Wavelength - def

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hue.

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Wave Amplitude and wavelength don’t interact. T/F?!

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FALSE. They do!

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Wave purity - def

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saturation.

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Light spectrum - what are the colors?

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ROY G BIV

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Cornea - def

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tough, round outer shell that begins focusing light waves.

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Pupil - def

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opening where light enters.

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Iris - def

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colored, expands or contracts depending on light intensity.

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Lens - def

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flexible, changes shape to focus images on the back of the eye.

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Ciliary muscles - def

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expand or contract to reflexively change the shape of the lens.

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Accommodation - def

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the changing of the shape of the lens.

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Fovea - def

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place where our visual acuity is best in daylight or in reasonably high levels of illumination.

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Blind spot - def

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the place at which the nerve impulses from the rods and cones, having passed through layers of cells, exit the eye.

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Humor - fluid. Two kinds? What are they?

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Aqueous - nourishes front of the eye.

Vitreous - interior - keeps eye spherical.

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Retina - def

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back of the eye where light is transduced and vision begins.

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Optic nerve - def

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collection of neurons leaving the eye, heading back to other parts of the brain.

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Photoreceptors - what are they? 2

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Rods and Cones.

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Rods - def - info

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120 million per eye. Found in the periphery of the retina. Work best in low light. Don’t discriminate color.

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Cones - def - info

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6 million per eye, found in center of retina (fovea.) Work best in bright conditions. Discriminate color.

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Optic Chiasm - def

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where and how fibers in the optic nerve get directed to the occipital lobe.

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Trichromatic Theory - def

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eye contains 3 distinct receptors - red, green and blue.

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Opponent Process Theory - def

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eye contains 3 pairs of mechanisms that respond to different to different wavelengths of light - red/green, blue/yellow, black/white.

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Stimulus - hearing - ?

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Sound!

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3 Physical characteristics of sound -

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Wave amplitude (loudness/decibel system.)
Wavelength or frequency - Pitch (hertz.)
Wave purity - Timbre -

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What’s the audible spectrum? Hertz

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20-20,000 hertz.

42
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Timbre - def

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pronounced tamber - the psychological quality or character of a sound that reflects its degree of purity.

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Pinna of the ear - what is it and what does it do?

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The outer ear and it collects and funnels waves to the eardrum.

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Cochlea - what is it?

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fluid filled, inner ear structure. Contains receptor cells for hearing.

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What are the receptor cells for hearing?

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Hair cells.

46
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Neural impulses leave the ear via the ____ toward the ___>

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auditory nerve/temporal lobe.

47
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Gustation - def

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taste, chemical molecules dissolved in saliva.

48
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What are the tastes?

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Sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami (savory).

49
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What are the receptors for olfaction?

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Taste Buds

50
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Pheromones - chemical - def

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produce distant odors, may relate to sexual attraction.

51
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Touch/pressure - certain body parts….__?

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have more receptors and are more sensitive.

52
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Temperature has very specific hot/cold receptors. T/F?

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FALSE. At least, for now!

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Pain - def

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intense stimulation.

54
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Gate control theory of pain - def

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suggests that the spinal cord contains a neurological gate that controls pain signals to the brain.

55
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Sensation - def

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conversion of energy from the environment into a pattern of responses by the nervous sytem.

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Perception - def

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making sense of that information (from sensation.)

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3 Steps of Perception -

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Attend, Process, Organize.

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Attention - perceptual selectivity - stimulus factors (4.)

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Intensity.
Size.
Motion.
Repetition.

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The most important thing to stimulus factors is…. ?

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Contrast.

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Personal factors - attention - 3

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Motivation, expectation, past experience -

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Mental Set - def

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formed when we are psychologically ready, or predisposed, to perceive something.

62
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Bottom-up processing - def

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stimulus processing/inductive. Data-driven processing (synthesis.) Perception determined partly by the bits and pieces of info received via sense.

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Top-down processing - def

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deductive. Conceptually driven processing (decomposition.) Perception depends partly on what you already know.

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Taking the picture of the old lady/young lady… if you already have seen it, you are using what form of processing?

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Top-down processing

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Personal factors for top down -

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we perceive stimuli as going together because we want them to, expect them to, or because they have gone together in the past.

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Stimulus Factor - Continuity - def

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things appear to continue the way that they started.

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Stimulus Factor - Closure - def

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filling in spaces or gaps.

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Stimulus Factor - Proximity - def

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events occurring together perceived as part of the same whole.

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Stimulus Factor - Similarity - def

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stimuli that are alike tend to be grouped together.

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Stimulus Factor - Common fate - def

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stimuli that appear to move together are grouped together.

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Stimulus Factor - Subjective Contours - def

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where arrangements of lines and patterns enable us to see figures that are not actually there.

72
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Figure ground relationship - def

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those stimuli that are attended to and grouped together are figured, where as the rest is the ground - it’s the QUEEN/VASE.

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Ocular Cues - def

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cues to depth/distance based on how eye works.

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Retinal disparity - def

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each eye gets slightly different view of a 3D object

75
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Convergence - def

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eyes turn towards each other when something gets close.

76
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Organism with front set eyes have better depth perception. T/F?!

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True!

77
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Retinal Disparity and Convergence - binocular or monocular?

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Binocular (requires both eyes.)

78
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Accommodation - def

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doesn’t work well more than an arm’s length away. It is when the lens changes shape to focus images on retina. We lose this ability over time.

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Accommodation is binocular - T/F?

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FALSE. It is monocular - requires just one eye.

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Physical Cues - relative size - def

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like how in a painting, things closer are bigger.

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Physical Cues - Interposition - def

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objects in front obscure objects behind them (like a card on top of another.)

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Physical Cues - Linear Perspective - def

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lines appear to converge in the distance.

83
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Physical Cues - Texture Gradient - def

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texture appears to become smoother as it gets farther out.

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Physical Cues - Motion Parallax - def

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objects that are closer tend to appear that they are moving faster.

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Physical Cues - Patterns of shading - def

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gives the appearance of 3D.

86
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Vestibular sense - def

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tells us about balance, about where we are in relation to gravity, and about acceleration or deceleration.

87
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Kinesthetic Sense - def

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senses the position and movements of parts of the body.

88
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Shape constancy - example

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door has different shape when it’s open vs. closed.

89
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Brightness Constancy - def

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the brightness remains roughly the same in darker light.

90
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Color Constancy - def

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you always know the color, even if some stimuli changes.

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