Sensation And Perception

Question 1

Sensation

Answer 1

Stimulus, physical energy

Question 2

Perception

Answer 2

Interpretation, experience

Question 3

Bottom up processing

Answer 3

Sensation

Question 4

Top down processing

Answer 4

Perception

Question 5

Transduction

Answer 5

Energy into neural impulses

Question 6

Psycho physics

Answer 6

Story of physical stimuli and our mental experience of them

Question 7

Absolute threshold

Answer 7

Minimum stimulus to detect stimulus 50% of the time

Question 8

Signal detection theory

Answer 8

How and when there is Detection of a faint stimulus among background stimulus

Question 9

Physical world= light

Psych world=

Answer 9

Color and brightness

Question 10

Physical world= sound

Psych world=

Answer 10

Volume and pitch

Question 11

Physical world= pressure

Psych world=

Answer 11

Weight

Question 12

Weber’s law

Answer 12

Proportional and sensational,

Two stimuli must differ by a certain percent to be detected

Question 13

Sensory adaptation

Answer 13

Diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant perception

Question 14

Cultural context

Answer 14

Culture context that alters perception

Question 15

Wavelength

Answer 15

How wide the the wave is

Question 16

Wavelength affects

Answer 16

Hue

Question 17

Amplitude

Answer 17

How high the waves are

Question 18

Amplitude affects

Answer 18

Intensity and brightness

Question 19

Fovea

Answer 19

Central point in retina where cones cluster

Question 20

Cones

Answer 20

Colors and function best in good lighting

Question 21

Rods

Answer 21

Grey scale and functions well in dim lighting

Question 22

Blind spot

Answer 22

Where optic nerve leaves the eye

Question 23

Bipolar cells

Answer 23

Receive messages from photoreceptors and transmits to ganglion cells

Question 24

Ganglion cells

Answer 24

Transduction

Make up the optic nerve with bipolar cells

Question 25

Feature detection

Answer 25

In the brain, edges, angles, and movement

Question 26

Parallel processing

Answer 26

Color, motion, form, and depth | Unconscious and simultaneous

Question 27

trichromatic theory

Answer 27

We see in three colors and there are three individual cones for each color

Question 28

Colorblind means

Answer 28

You have some cones not functioning

Question 29

Opponent process theory

Answer 29

Some cones are turned on and turned off by other colors

Question 30

Red to

Answer 30

Green

Question 31

Blue to

Answer 31

Yellow

Question 32

Gestalt

Answer 32

Form a whole

Question 33

Immanuel Kant

Answer 33

Nature

Question 34

John Locke

Answer 34

Nurture

Question 35

Hearing

Answer 35

Sound waves

Question 36

Frequency affects

Answer 36

Pitch

Question 37

Intensity affects

Answer 37

Loudness

Question 38

Middle ear

Answer 38

Sound is conducted

Question 39

Inner ear

Answer 39

Sound is transfixed

Question 40

Short wavelength

Answer 40

High frequency

Question 41

Long wavelength

Answer 41

Low frequency

Question 42

When we touch we release

Answer 42

Oxytocin, epinephrine, and dopamine

Question 43

Pain is carried through

Answer 43

Small gates

Question 44

To turn off pain stimulate

Answer 44

Big gates

Question 45

Best pain control is

Answer 45

Distraction