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Weber

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just noticeable difference

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Fechner

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Weber’s Law

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Wertheimer

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Gestalt psychology; phi phenonemon

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absolute threshold

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minimum of stimulus energy needed to activate the sensory system (i.e. before it can be perceived)

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limen

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another word for threshold

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difference threshold

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amount of stimulus energy added or subtracted from a stimulus for a difference to be noticed

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just noticeable difference

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measures same thing as difference threshold but units are different. if 2 oz is the point where difference in weight is noticeable, then 2 oz = 1 JND

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Weber’s Law

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JND is produced by ratio of difference between two stimuli not the absolute difference

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Weber’s fraction

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constant K; the smaller the K the better the sensitivity

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Fechner’s Law

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relates the intensity of the stimulus to the intensity of the sensation

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Stevens’ power law

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same as Fechner’s Law (intensity of stimulus to intensity of sensation) but different formula

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response bias

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how risky a person is in sensory decision-making (based upon nonsensory factors)

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ROC curves

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used to graphically summarize a subject’s responses in a signal detection experiment

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John Swets

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refined use of ROC curves

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stages of sensory processing

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reception, transduction, sent to projection areas

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duplicity theory of vision

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there are two kinds of photoreceptors in the retina

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Are there more rods or cones in the human eye?

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rods

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What happens at the optic chiasm?

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Nasal fibers from left eye go to right side of brain, nasal fibers from right eye go to the left side of brain; temporal fibers from left go to left and temporal fibers from right go to right (end result: information from left visual field of both eyes goes to the right side of the brain and vice versa)

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brain structures involved in visual processing

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lateral geniculate nucleus of thalamus, visual cortex, and superior colliculus

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order that light passes through eye

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cornea, pupil, lens, rods and cones, bipolar cells, amacrine cells, ganglion cells, optic nerve

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blind spot

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corresponds with optic disk (no photoreceptors here)

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Hubel and Wiesel

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feature detection theory (Nobel Prize 1981), single cell recording

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feature detection theory

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certain cells in the cortex are maximally sensitive to certain features of stimuli (simple, complex, and hyper complex cells)

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simple cells

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responds to orientation and boundaries of object

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complex cells

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responds to movement

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hypercomplex cells

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responds to shape/abstract concepts

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pigment in rods

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rhodopsin (made up of vitamin A deriviative retinal and opsin)

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physiology behind dark adaptation

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also known as bleaching; rhodopsin splits into retinal and opsin when light is absorbed. Adaptation occurs after rhodopsin has regenerated.

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lateral inhibition

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when adjacent retinal cells inhibit one another; this sharpens and highlights borders between light and dark areas

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30
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what is colour perception related to?

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the wavelength of the light entering the eye

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subtractive colour mixture

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occurs when pigments are mixed

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additive colour mixture

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red, green, and blue; how lights are mixed together (important for how we see colour)

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Young-Helmholtz theory

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trichromatic theory; retina contains three types of cones that have different sensitives to colours

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opponent-process theory

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Hering; there are three opposing pairs (red-green, blue-yellow, black-white). when one of these colours is perceived (e.g. red), a red-green cells in excited, but the colour green inhibits the same cell. Excitation and inhibition cannot occur at the same time (so you can’t have “reddish green” –> applies to cells in lateral geniculate nucleus

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Berkeley

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depth cues (interposition, relative size, linear perspective)

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interposition/overlap

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cue for depth perception when one object covers or overlaps with another object

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linear perspective

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the convergence of parallel lines in the distance

38
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Gibson

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more depth cues (texture gradients, motion parallax, binocular disparity)

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texture gradients

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variations in perceived surface texture as a function of the distance from the observer

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motion parallax

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when observer moves, objects in a stationary environment appear to move relative to distance from observer

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binocular disparity/steropsis

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each eye sees a slightly different scene and when the brain combines these scenes, we get depth perception

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form perception

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figure and ground

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law of proximity

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elements close to one another tend to be perceived as one unit

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law of similarity

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elements similar to one another tend to be grouped together

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law of good continuation

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elements that appear to follow in the same direction tend to be grouped together

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law of closure

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tendency to see incomplete figures as being complete

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law of Praganaz

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perceptual organization will always be as “good” as possible

48
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Kohlberg

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theory of isomorphism

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theory of isomorphism

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suggests there is a one-to-one correspondence between the object in the perceptual field and the pattern of stimulation in the brain

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phi

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apparent motion; illusion that occurs when two dots flashed in different locations on a screen seconds apart are perceived as one moving dot

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induced motion

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illusion of movement occurring when everything around the spot of light is moved

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autokinetic effect

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illusion that occurs when a spot of light appears to move erratically in a dark room because there is no frame of reference

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motion aftereffect

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if a moving object is viewed for an extended period of time, it will appear to move in an opposite direction when the motion stops

54
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distal vs proximal stimuli

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distal is the actual object, proximal is information our sensory receptors receive about it

55
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constancies of vision

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size, shape, light, colour

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Emmett’s law

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size-distance invariance principle; size constancy depends on apparent distance

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frequency

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number of cycles per second, measured in Hz (inversely related to wavelength)

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intensity

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amplitude or height of the air pressure wave, measured in bels or decibels (related to loudness)

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pitch

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subjective experience of the magnitude of intensity of the sound

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timbre

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quality of a particular sound (think how C sounds on piano vs. clarinet)

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ear structures of middle ear in order

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hammer (malleus), anvil (incus), and stirrup (stapes)

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ear structures of outer ear in order

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pinna, auditory canals, eardrum (tympanic membrane)

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ear structures of inner ear in order

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oval window (entrance), cochlea, basila membrane, organ of Corti, auditory nerve

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basic circuit that auditory nerve projects to

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superior olivary complex, inferior colliculus, medial geniculate nucleus (in thalamus), temporal cortex

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place theory

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each different pitch causes a different place on the basilar membrane to vibrate (Helmholtz and Young)

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frequency theory

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the basilar membrane vibrates as a whole and rate of vibration equals the frequency of the stimulus

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Where are the sensory receptors for taste? Where does info from them travel to?

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the taste buds which are found in little bumps on the tongue called papillae; taste center of thalamus

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Where are the sensory receptors for smell? Where does info from them travel to?

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upper nasal passage for the nose (olfactory epithelium); olfactory bulb

69
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Where does info from the touch receptors go to?

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somatosensory cortex

70
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two-point thresholds

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minimum distance necessary between two points of stimulation so that they will be felt as two distinct stimuli

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physiological zero

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neutral temperature perceived to be neither hot nor cold (so a comfortable body temperature)

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gate theory of pain

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there is a special gating mechanism (located in spinal cord) that can turn pain signals on or off

73
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Melzack and Wall

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gate theory of pain

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vestibular sense

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sense of balance (semicircular canals) and of our bodily position relative to gravity

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kinesthetic sense

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awareness of body movement and position

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Broadbent

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selective attention acts as a filter between sensory stimuli and our processing systems; all or nothing; probably not the case

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