Sensation and perception Flashcards
Stimulation of sensory receptors and the transmission of sensory information to the central nervous system
Sensation
-not mechanical
-nothing similar only in organized and interpreted form
-An active provess in which sensation are organized and interpreted to form an inner representation of the world
Perception
-Can create perception and memory
Childhood trauma
-evolved, advance and most important sense
Vision
-more common to happen
-more dangerous cause theres a story
Auditory hallucination
-nose nerves
-near mid brain
Ol factory
-easily remembers and feel
Nose or sense of Scent
-taste nerves
Gustatory
Relationship between Sensation and perception
-absolute threshold
-sublimal stimulation
-difference threshold
-signal-detection theory
-feature detectors
-sensory adaptation
-a number
-weakest level of a stimulus that is necessary to produce a sensation
-smallest magnitude at which a sensory stimulus can reliably evoke a sensation
Absolute threshold
-sensory stimulation that is below a person’s absolute threshold for conscious perception
Subliminal Stimulation
-ex. dream
-A kind of stimulus where in it may be perceived and processed in the brain but does not elicit awareness of perception
Sublimal Stimulation
-Present stimulus but person wont be aware and change people’s desicion
-a phenomenon whereby exposure to one stimulus without conscious guidance or intention
-Priming
-ability to identify someone from a crowd
-enough signals to find object
-depends on: training, Psychological state and motivation
Signal detection theory
-state of your eyes when solving, anxious and alert
Dilated eyes
-When it gets higher youll miss the signals
-psychological
Anxiety
-physiological
-false alarm, fear that isn’t there
-capable of loosing conscious
-confuse internal in danger cues
Panic Attack
-signal detection theory gone wrong
Panic attack
-process by which we become more sensitive to stimuli after constant exposure to it
Sensory Adaptation
-when its dark but slowly you can see in it
Light adaptation
-minimum required difference between two stimuli for a person to notice change 50% of the time
Difference threshold
-The part of the electromagnetic spectrum that stimulates the eye and produces visual sensations
Visible light
-the process adjusting to high lighting
Light adaptation
-the process of adjusting to lower lighting
Dark Adaptation
-indicates that we can receive 3 types of colors (Red green blue)
-cones vary the ratio of neural activity (like projection T. V)
Trichromatic theory
Proposed the opponent process theory of color vision
Ewald Hering
-claimed that there are three types of color receptors but only sensitive to red green and blue
Helmholtz
-suggested after image are made possible by three types of color receptors: Red-Green, Blue-yellow and a type perceives differences in brightness
Hering
-normal color vision
Trichromat
-people who are totally color blind
-sensitive only to lightness and darkness total color blindness is rare
Monochromats
-sensitive to black-white and either red-green or blue-yellow and hence is partially color blind
Dichromat
-mental representation of a stimulus that is perceived
-pattern matching
-representation of the object then pattern matching
Mental Precept
-an image of a cow although most people are unable to see it at first glance
Dallenbach’s cow
-consistent and persistent discrepancies between a physical state of affairs and representation in consciousness
Perpetual illusion
-approaches where perception starts with the stimuli whose appearance you take in through your eye
Bottom up theory
-direct and indirect-computational
Perceptual theories
-perception is driven by high-level cognitive processes existing knowledge and the prior expectations that influence perception
-from view point expectations are important
Top-down theory
-the influences of the surrounding environment on perception
Context effect
-titchener circles
-optic illusion of relative size perception
Ebbinghaus Illusion
-German psychologist that discovered the illusion
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Pattern or distinct structure found in an image such as a point edge or small image patch
Local Features
-whole differs from the sum of its individual parts
Gestalt Psychology
-we tend to perceive any given visual array in away that most simply organizes the different elements into a stable and coherent form
-we tend to perceive a focal figure and other sensations as forming a background for the figure on which we focus
Pragnanz
Figure is any object perceived as being highlighted
Figure-ground effect
When we perceive an assortment of objects that are close to each other as a forming a group
Proximity