Sensation And Perception Flashcards by jinli wu

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Ernst Weber

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Investigation of muscle sense

Introduce just noticeable difference (JND)

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Gustav Fechner

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Formulated Weber’s law

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Sir Francis Galton

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Anthropometric lab

How people differ in their sensory abilities

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Max Wertheimer

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Founder of Gestalt psychology

Phi phenomenon

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S. S. Steven

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Steven’s law

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John A. Swets

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Refined ROC curve

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Hubel and Wiesel

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Found a neural basis for feature detection theory

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Young-Helmholtz

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Trichromatic theory

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Ewald Hering

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Opponent process theory of color vision

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George Berkeley

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Various cues for depth

Interposition, relative size, linear perspective

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J. J. Gibson

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Texture gradient

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Wolfgang Kohler

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Theory of isomorphism

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Emmert

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Emmert’s law

Size constancy and apparent distance

Later generalized into the size-distance invariance principle

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Fantz

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Preferential looking

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Eleanor Gibson and Richard walk

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Visual cliff

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Helmholtz

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Place resonance theory

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Weber and Bray

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Modified the frequency theory by proposing the volley principal

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Beseky

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Beseky traveling theory

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Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall

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Gate theory of pain

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Donald Broadbent

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Selective attention

All or nothing process

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Yerkes-Dodson law

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Arousal and performance