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Sensation And Perception Flashcards

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hearing

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

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Vision

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

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taste and smell

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chemical sense transmit info from nose and tongue to brain

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body senses

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

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inner ear

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for balance

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sensation

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receiving sensory messages

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

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stimulus

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

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sensory receptor cells

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cells in sense organs are activated to take in messages

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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

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absolute threshold

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weakest level of sensory stimulation necessary for sensation to occur

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difference threshold

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just noticeable difference

the smallest difference between two stimuli that is detectable

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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

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psychophysics

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

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top down processing

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importance of context in determining how we perceive objects

*****big picture down to tiny detail

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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

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intensity

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how loud the sound is

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hearing measured in

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decibels

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the mcgurk effect

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

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cutaneous receptors

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

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what lets us know sensation

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skin

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kinesthetic receptors

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

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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

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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

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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
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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

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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

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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

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