Sensation And Perception

Question 0

hearing

Answer 0

ear collects, translates, and transmits energy from vibration to brain

Question 1

Vision

Answer 1

Eye collects, translates, and transmits energy from light to brain

Question 2

taste and smell

Answer 2

chemical sense transmit info from nose and tongue to brain

Question 3

body senses

Answer 3

translate and transmit temperature, touch, pain, and info from joints and such to brain

Question 4

inner ear

Answer 4

for balance

Question 5

sensation

Answer 5

receiving sensory messages

process of receiving translating and transmitting messages from the outside world to the brain

Question 6

stimulus

Answer 6

any aspect of the world that influences our behavior or conscious experience

Question 7

sensory receptor cells

Answer 7

cells in sense organs are activated to take in messages

Question 8

perception

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process of organizing and interpreting info in a meaningful way

psychological process of giving meaning to what was sensed

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sensation is

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physical experience of seeing, hearing, or sensing in some other way

Question 10

absolute threshold

Answer 10

weakest level of sensory stimulation necessary for sensation to occur

Question 11

difference threshold

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just noticeable difference

the smallest difference between two stimuli that is detectable

Question 12

sensory adaptation

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weakened magnitude of a sensation when we have prolonged expossure to stimuli

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selective attention

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affects which stimuli we notice

Question 14

psychophysics

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specialty area of psych that studies sensory limits, adaptation, and related topics. They try to quantify just noticeable differences.

Question 15

top down processing

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importance of context in determining how we perceive objects

*****big picture down to tiny detail

Question 16

visual illusion

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visual stimuli in which the clues used in visual percpetion create a false or incorrect perception

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pitch

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how high or low a sound is based upon the frequency of the sound waves

Question 18

intensity

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how loud the sound is

Question 19

hearing measured in

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decibels

Question 20

the mcgurk effect

Answer 20

perceptual phenomeon that demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception

Question 21

cutaneous receptors

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nerve recpetors in the skin that respond to pressure, temp, or pain

Question 22

what lets us know sensation

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skin

Question 23

kinesthetic receptors

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in muscles, joints, and skin that provide info about movement, posture, and orientation to brain

Question 24

olfaction

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sense of smell | most animal like

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gustation

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sense of taste

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taste buds

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chemical recpetors on tongue that decode molecules of food or drink to identify

Question 27

congenital insensitivity to pain with Anhidrosis

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condition which a person is unable to feel pain cant tell if sick or injured rare cause;extra production of endorphin in the brain genetic treatments; naloxone; allows nerves to be stimulated

Question 28

subliminal perception

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you recieve and respond to info and instructions without being aware used in advertisments and also with hearing

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extrasensory perception

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``` sensed without using 5 senses psychic precognition- predict future clairvoyance- know where objects are hidden telepathy-read minds ```

Question 30

synethesia

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stimulation of one sense causes another sense an automatic experience genetic 2 out of 5 percent see sounds, taste words,and feel sensation on skin from scents

Question 31

similarity perception

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states that parts of visual stimulus that are perceived as belonging together

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shape constancy

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ablility to perceive an object as having the same shape regardless of the angle it is seen at

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proximity

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objects that are closer to each other are part of the same group

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space constancy

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ability to keep objects in the environment steady by perceiving either ouselves or outside objects as moving

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closure principle

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states that incomplete figures of familiar objects tend to be perceived as wholes

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brightness constancy

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ability to keep an object's brightness constant as the object is moved

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depth perception

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to see the relation of objects in space

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visual cliff

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apparatus used to demonstrate depth perception

Question 39

ponzo

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railroad | yellow lines are the same size they appear to be longer than they are

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zollner

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fence | straight lines appear to move even though they are static

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muller-lyer

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size constancy

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ames room

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boy larger than man | raise floor and ceiling to cause illusion

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poggendorf

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involves the misperception of the position of intersecting lines

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titchener

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circles