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Sensation and Perception Flashcards

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Sensation

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The physical process of environmental stimuli by the sense organs

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Perception

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The psychological process of interpreting sensory info

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Transduction

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The conversion of one form of energy into another

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Absolute Threshold

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The smallest amount of stimulation needed for detection by a sense

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Signal Detection

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Method for studying the ability to correctly identify sensory stimuli

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Differential Threshold

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The smallest difference needed in order to differentiate two stimuli

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Bottom-Up Processing

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When we build up perception from the individual pieces

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Top-Down Processing

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Stimuli we’ve experienced in the past will influence how we process new ones

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Sensory Adaptation

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Decrease in sensitivity of a receptor to a stimulus after constant stimulation

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Binocular Disparity

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Difference in images processed by the left and right eyes

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Rods

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Photoreceptors of the retina sensitive to low levels of light

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Cones

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Photoreceptors of the retina sensitive to color

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Agnosia

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Loss of the ability to perceive stimuli

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Prosopagnosia

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The inability to recognize faces

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Vestibular System

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Parts of the inner eat involved in balance

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Tactile Sensation

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Different receptors in our skin gather info about the environment

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Somatosensory Cortex

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Area of the cortex involved in processing somatosensory stimuli

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Somatosensory

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A sensation that can occur anywhere in the body

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Somatosensation

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Ability to sense touch, pain, and temperature

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Phantom Limb Pain

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Pain in a limb that no longer exists

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Multimodal Perception

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The effects that concurrent stimulation in more than one sensory modality has on the perception of events and objects in the world

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