Sensation And Perception

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A paychological lack of attention and it is not associated with any vision defects of deficits.

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Inattentional blindness

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Is a surprising perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus is introduced and the observer does not notice it.

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Change blindness

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Is the transformation of something from one form, place, or concept to another

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Transduction

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Investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions the effect.

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Psychophysics

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Is a means to quantify the ability to discern between information-bearing and random patterns that distract from the information

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Signal detection theory

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Is the minimum difference in stimulation that a person can detect 50 percent of the time.

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Difference threshold

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Occurs when sensory receptors change their sensitivity to the stimulus. This phenomenon in all sense, with the possible exception of the sense of pain.

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Sensory adaption

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Includes reception of information not gained through the recognized physical sense but withh the mind.

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Eatrasensoryerception

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A field of study concerned with the investigation of paranormal and psychic phenomena.

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Parapsychology

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Is an obscuration of the visual field

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Blind spot

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Is the ability of the brain to simultaneously process stimuli of differing quality.

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Parallel processing

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Is a psychological and neurological model that accounts for a wide of behaviors, including color vision.

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Opponent-process theory

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Involves and apparent but not actual drop from one surface to another created by Eleanor J. Gibson

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Visual Cliff

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Information taken in both eyes that aids in depth perception. Including binocular convergence and retinal disparity

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Binocular cues

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Is defined as the way that your left eye and right eye view slightly different images.

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Retinal disparity

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Part of depth perception is the ability to perceive the distance of an object

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Monocular cues

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Is the means by which the brain accounts for he differences that the subject may witness, particularly alterations in the visual field.

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Perceptual adaptation

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Is the number of complete wavelengths that occur within specific time

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Frequency

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The subjective trait which allows noises to be arranged in order on a musical scale

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Pitch

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Is a type of hearing loss in which the root cause lies in the vestibulocochlear or central processing of the brain.

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Sensorineural hearing loss

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Occurs when there is a problem conduncting spund waves anywhere along the route through or middle ear.

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Conductive hearing loss

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A theory which states that our perception of sound depends on where each component frequency produces vibrations along the basilar membrane

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Place theory

Question 22

Explain how the human brain basically experiences a representation system of hearing.

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Frequency theory

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A theory that suggests that the spinal cord contains a neurological gate that either blocks pain signals or allows them to continue on to the brain.

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Gate control theory

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The sense of body orientation with respect to gravity. It helps you feel which way is up, and how your body is moving in space. Sense of balance.

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Vestibular sense

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A swedish neurophysiologist. Together with david huebel received a prize for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system

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Torsten Wiesel

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German physician founder of experimental psychology.

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Ernst Weber

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Canadian neurophysiologist noted for his studies of the structure and function of the visual cortex.

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David Hubel

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German psychologist. An early pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics he inspired many 20th century scientists and philosophers.

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Gustav Fechner