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Stimulation of sensory receptors and the transmission of sensory information to the central nervous system

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Sensation

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-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

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Perception

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-Can create perception and memory

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Childhood trauma

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-evolved, advance and most important sense

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Vision

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-more common to happen
-more dangerous cause theres a story

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Auditory hallucination

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-nose nerves
-near mid brain

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Ol factory

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-easily remembers and feel

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Nose or sense of Scent

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-taste nerves

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Gustatory

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Relationship between Sensation and perception

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-absolute threshold
-sublimal stimulation
-difference threshold
-signal-detection theory
-feature detectors
-sensory adaptation

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-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

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Absolute threshold

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-sensory stimulation that is below a person’s absolute threshold for conscious perception

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Subliminal Stimulation

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-ex. dream
-A kind of stimulus where in it may be perceived and processed in the brain but does not elicit awareness of perception

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Sublimal Stimulation

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-Present stimulus but person wont be aware and change people’s desicion
-a phenomenon whereby exposure to one stimulus without conscious guidance or intention

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-Priming

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-ability to identify someone from a crowd
-enough signals to find object
-depends on: training, Psychological state and motivation

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Signal detection theory

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-state of your eyes when solving, anxious and alert

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Dilated eyes

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-When it gets higher youll miss the signals
-psychological

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Anxiety

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-physiological
-false alarm, fear that isn’t there
-capable of loosing conscious
-confuse internal in danger cues

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Panic Attack

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-signal detection theory gone wrong

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Panic attack

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-process by which we become more sensitive to stimuli after constant exposure to it

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Sensory Adaptation

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-when its dark but slowly you can see in it

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Light adaptation

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-minimum required difference between two stimuli for a person to notice change 50% of the time

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Difference threshold

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-The part of the electromagnetic spectrum that stimulates the eye and produces visual sensations

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Visible light

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-the process adjusting to high lighting

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Light adaptation

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-the process of adjusting to lower lighting

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Dark Adaptation

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-indicates that we can receive 3 types of colors (Red green blue)
-cones vary the ratio of neural activity (like projection T. V)

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Trichromatic theory

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Proposed the opponent process theory of color vision

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Ewald Hering

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-claimed that there are three types of color receptors but only sensitive to red green and blue

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Helmholtz

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-suggested after image are made possible by three types of color receptors: Red-Green, Blue-yellow and a type perceives differences in brightness

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Hering

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-normal color vision

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Trichromat

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-people who are totally color blind
-sensitive only to lightness and darkness total color blindness is rare

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Monochromats

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-sensitive to black-white and either red-green or blue-yellow and hence is partially color blind

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Dichromat

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-mental representation of a stimulus that is perceived
-pattern matching
-representation of the object then pattern matching

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Mental Precept

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-an image of a cow although most people are unable to see it at first glance

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Dallenbach’s cow

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-consistent and persistent discrepancies between a physical state of affairs and representation in consciousness

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Perpetual illusion

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-approaches where perception starts with the stimuli whose appearance you take in through your eye

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Bottom up theory

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-direct and indirect-computational

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Perceptual theories

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-perception is driven by high-level cognitive processes existing knowledge and the prior expectations that influence perception
-from view point expectations are important

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Top-down theory

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-the influences of the surrounding environment on perception

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Context effect

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-titchener circles
-optic illusion of relative size perception

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Ebbinghaus Illusion

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-German psychologist that discovered the illusion

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Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Pattern or distinct structure found in an image such as a point edge or small image patch

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Local Features

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-whole differs from the sum of its individual parts

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Gestalt Psychology

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-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

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Pragnanz

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Figure is any object perceived as being highlighted

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Figure-ground effect

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When we perceive an assortment of objects that are close to each other as a forming a group

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Proximity

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Five of Gestalt principles

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Proximity
Similarity
Continuity
Closure
Symmetry

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Two different pattern recognition systems

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-Feature analysis system
-configurational system

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-system specializes in recognition of parts of objects and in assembling those parts into distinctive wholes
-recognizes parts

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Feature analysis system

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-system that specializes in recognizing larger configurations.
-It is not well equipped to analyze parts of objects or the construction of the objects
-recognizes pattern

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Configuration system

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Deficits in perception

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-prosopagnosia
-agnosia
-simultagnosia
-ataxia

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Unable to identify faces

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Prosopagnosia

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Unable to recognize objects

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Agnosia

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-unable to know objects ability

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Ataxia

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-can’t persive something
-no problem with sensation
-not caused by psychological stress, but accidents, strokes and other medical problems

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Deficits in perception

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-process by which sensation are organized into an inner representation of the world

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Perception

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The view that the perception of sensory stimuli involves the interaction of physical, biological, and psychological factors

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Signal detection theory

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The fraction of the intensity by which a source of physical energy must be increased or decreased so that a difference in intensity will be perceived

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Weber’s constant

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Neurons in the sensory cortex that fire in response to specific features of sensory information such as line or edges of objects

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Feature detectors

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-Type of sensory adaptation in which we become more sensitive to stimuli that are low in magnitude.
-Called positive adaptation

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Sensitization

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-Type of sensory adaptation in whicg we become more less sensitive to constant stimuli
-Called negative adaptation

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Desensitization

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The color of light as determined by its wavelength

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Hue

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Transparent tissue forming the outer surface of the eyeball

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Cornea

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A muscular membrane whose dilation regulates the amount of light that enters the eye

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Iris

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Black looking opening in the center of the iris through which light enters the eyes

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Pupils

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A transparent body behind the iris that focuses an image on the retina

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Lens

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The area of the inner surface of the eye that contains rods and cones

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Retina

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Cells that respond to light

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Photoreceptors

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Neurons that conduct neural impulses from rids and cones to ganglion cells

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Bipolar cells

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Neurons whose axons from optic nerve

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Ganglion cells

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The nerves that transmit sensory information from the eyes to the brain

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Optic nerves

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Photoreceptors that are sensitive only to the intensity of light

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Rods

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Photoreceptors that transmit sensations of color

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Cones

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An area near the centered of the retina that is dense with cones and where vision is consequently most acute

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Fovea

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The area of the retina where axons from ganglion cells meet to form the optic nerve

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Blind spot

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Sharpness of vision

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Visual acuity

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A condition characterized by brittleness of the lens

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Presbyopia

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The lingering visual impression made by a stimulus that has been removed

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Afterimage

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The perpetual tendency to group together objects that are similar in appearance

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Similarity

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Tendency to perceive a series of points or lines as having unity

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Continuity

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The tendency to perceive elements that move together as belonging. Together

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Common fate

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Sensation that give rise to misperceptions

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Illusion

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Visual Acuity (Sharpness of vision)

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Farsighted
Near sightedness

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Connected with the shape of the eye

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Visual Acuity

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Two Photoreceptors

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Rods and Cones

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We tend to perpetually close up or complete objects that are not infact complete

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Closure

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We tend to perceive objects as forming mirror images about their center

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Symmetry

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Unable to see one object at a time

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Simultagnosia

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located in sensory organs such as the eyes and ears, the skin and elsewhere in the body

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Sensory receptors

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Automatic process

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Stimulation of the senses

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results from sources of energy , like light and sound or from the presence of chemicals , as in smell and taste

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Stimulation of senses

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active process which sensations are organized and interpreted to form an inner representation of the world ( Goldstein 2013 Hafemeister et al , 2010 .

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Perception

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final product of sensation; conclusion

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Perception

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minimum difference in stimuli that a person can detect

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Just Noticeable Difference

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1/60th

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Weber’s constant of light

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relationship between a physical stimulus and a sensory response is not fully mechanical

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Signal Detection Theory

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depends not only on the intensity of the blips but also on training, motivation, and psych states

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Signal Detection theory

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White of the eye

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Sclera

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Composed of Hard protective tissue

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Sclera

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Colored part

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Iris

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based on experiment by British scientist Thomas Young

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Trichromatic theory

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Opponent-process theory of color vision

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Ewald Hering

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looking at one color for a long period causes those receptor cells to become fatigued.

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Opponent process theory of color vision

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causes us to perceive a circle as larger when surrounded by smaller circles and smaller when surrounded by larger circles

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Ebinghaus illusion

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apply only to humans and not other primates

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Gestalt principles

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participants more quickly identify the local features of the individual letters than global ones

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Global and Local Effect

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-perceive any given visual array in a way that most simply organizes the different elements into a stable and coherent form
-means “Good figure” or “pithiness”

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Pragnanz

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any object perceived as being highlighted ; almost always perceived against or in contrast to some kind of receding, unhighlighted (back) ground

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Figure

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can see the face and recognize emotion, but cannot recognize whether the person is a stranger, friend, or own mother

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Prosopagnosia

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functioning of the right-hemisphere fusiform gyrus is strongly implicated

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Prosopagnosia

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can perceive the colors and shapes of objects but they cannot recognize what the objects are

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Agnosia

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unable to pay attention to more than one object at a time ; disturbance in the temporal region of the cortex

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Simultagnosia

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results from a processing failure in the posterior parietal cortex, where sensorimotor info is processed

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Ataxia

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pprinciples/laws of human perception that describe how humans group similar elements, recognize patterns and simplify complex images when we perceive objects.

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Gestalt principles

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Adjusting to light, responsible for light adaptation

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Cones and rods

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