Sensation

Question 1

Sensation

Answer 1

physical response to stimulation

Question 2

Stimulus

Answer 2

any outside factor that arouses a sense organ

Question 3

Receptor Cell

Answer 3

neurons specialized for each sense

Question 4

Detection

Answer 4

body noticing the stimulus

Question 5

Discrimination

Answer 5

distinguishing differences

Question 6

Noise

Answer 6

any background stimulation

Question 7

Absolute Threshold

Answer 7

minimum stimulus needed to detect stimulus

Question 8

Difference Threshold

Answer 8

how different until differentiable?

Question 9

Weber’s Law

Answer 9

difference threshold = ratio

Question 10

Signal Detection Theory

Answer 10

miss vs. false alarm vs. hit vs. correct rejection

Question 11

Distal Stimulus

Answer 11

actual wavelength

Question 12

Proximal Stimulus

Answer 12

signal the brain can use; transduced from distal stimulus

Question 13

Sensory Adaptation

Answer 13

get used to stimulation

Question 14

Habituation

Answer 14

brain gets used to it

Question 15

Sensory Restriction vs. Deprivation

Answer 15

restrict stimulus vs. deprive stimulus (torture)

Question 16

Attention

Answer 16

noticing a stimulus

Question 17

Dual-Processing

Answer 17

“multitasking” — selective attention.

- Not splitting attention, merely shifting attention back and forth

Question 18

Cocktail Party Effect

Answer 18

attention shifts to something distracting

Question 19

Dichotic Presentation

Answer 19

ex. watch/focus on 1 thing in a video, miss something completely random (like a bear walking right through)