Sensation and perception

Question 1

Sensation meaning

Answer 1

Where our sense organs and receptors detect and respond to sensory information.

Question 2

Perception meaning

Answer 2

Where we give meaning to the sensory information.

Question 3

3 steps in Sensation

Answer 3

Reception, Transduction, Transmission

Question 4

4 steps in taste perception

Answer 4

Stimulus, Reception, Transduction, Perception

Question 5

The sensory organs are?

Answer 5

Touch, Smell, Hearing, Taste, Sight

Question 6

Reception

Answer 6

Our sense organs first receive info about a stimulus.

Question 7

Transduction

Answer 7

Raw sensory data received by receptors and is converted to new form to be sent to the brain.

Question 8

Transmission

Answer 8

Sending information to the areas of the brain responsible for for processing sensory information.

Question 9

Receptive fileds

Answer 9

A section of space where a stimulus is present.

Question 10

What is a Gestalt Principle?

Answer 10

Perceive visuals as a whole

Question 11

4 Gestalt Principle

Answer 11

Figure-grounds, Closure, Similarity and Proximity.

Question 12

Figure-grounds

Answer 12

Dividing visuals into a figure which stands out from the ground.

Question 13

Closure

Answer 13

Mentally fill in or ignore gaps in a visual image to see it as a whole.

Question 14

Similarity

Answer 14

See a visual image that has similar features. Colour, shape, size and texture.

Question 15

Proximity

Answer 15

Perceive parts of a visual image which are close together belongs in a group.

Question 16

Monocular Depth Cues

Answer 16

Accommodation, Pictorial Cues

Question 17

Accommodation

Answer 17

Automatic adjustments of our eye lens to focus on an object to change how far away the object is.

Question 18

Binocular Depth Cues

Answer 18

Convergence and retinal disparity

Question 19

Convergents

Answer 19

Detecting depth by changing tension in the eye muscles.

Question 20

The five Depth Perception

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Linear Perspective, Interposition, Texture Gradient, Relative Size and height in the visual field.

Question 21

Liner perspective

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The meeting of parallel lines as they go back into the distance to give depth

Question 22

Interposition

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Overlap, When one abject slightly covers another and the object furthest is the one being covered.

Question 23

Texture Gradient

Answer 23

Reduced detail that occurs in a surface as it becomes further away

Question 24

Relative Size

Answer 24

To visually see that the object largest in view is closest and the object that is smallest is further away.

Question 25

Influences of Visual Perception

Answer 25

Perceptual set, context, motivation, emotional state, culture.

Question 26

Perceptual Set

Answer 26

To see something in what we expect to see.

Question 27

Five Basic Taste

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Sweet, Sour, Savoury, Salty and Bitter

Question 28

Influences on Taste Perception

Answer 28

Age, Genetics, Perceptual set, Culture

Question 29

Judgement of flavours

Answer 29

Perceptual set, Colour intensity and texture.

Question 30

Stimulus - Taste

Answer 30

Chemical molecules combine with saliva on your tongue.

Question 31

Reception - Taste

Answer 31

Taste receptors located in taste buds that are grouped within the papillae.

Question 32

Transduction - Taste

Answer 32

Convert chemical molecules into signals transmitted to the brain by the facial nerve.

Question 33

Perception - Taste

Answer 33

Facial nerve carriers send information to the thalamus then to the gustatory cortex.

Question 34

Age and taste

Answer 34

The number of taste buds increase durning childhood and decrease with age.

Question 35

Genetics and taste

Answer 35

Make us more or less sensitive to taste.

Question 36

Synaesthesia

Answer 36

Stimulation of one sense stimulates another involuntary second sense. Unique to each person and is constant.

Question 37

Retinal disparity

Answer 37

Difference between the way each eye sees an object when up close.

Question 38

Height in the visual field

Answer 38

The closer an object is to the horizon the further away it is.