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Sensation and Preception Flashcards

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Study of how we organize our sensory worlds

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Preception

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Study of how our senses organizes physical stimuli from the outside world into neural codes

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Sensation

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Anatomy of the eye

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Visual

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Photo sensitive layer

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Retina

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Dark colors

-black & gray

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Rod Cells

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Color and fine detail

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Cone Cells

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Contains cone cells rod cells

Night vision

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Fovea

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Ability to detect distance

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Depth Preception

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Refinal Disparity & Convergence

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Binocular Cue
(Under Depth Preception)
(Two eyes)

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When the image from each eye are fused into one image by the brian giving depth

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Refinal Disparity

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Brain sensing the degree your eyes turn in word to keep an object in focus

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Convergence

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Accommodation

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Monocular Cue
(Under Depth Preception)
(One eye)

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Brian is sensing how thick or thin the lens is

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Accommodation

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Linear Perpestive

2-D Representation

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Pictorial Cues

Under Depth Preception

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2 parallel lines appear to converge 
Overlap inter-position
Texture Gradient- object lose detail in distance
Change in size
Aerial Perspective
Motion Parallax
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Linear Perpestive

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Fog or haze gives distance

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Aerial perspective

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Motion implies distance

Objects closer move by faster

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Motion parallax

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Figure-Ground Reversal

Pull an object from the background

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Gestalt Law of Organization

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Group of objects together based on their distance apart

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Proximity

Gestalt Laws of Organization

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Group objects based on their looks

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Similarity

Gestalt Laws of Organization

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Brings an object to its complete appearance

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Closure

Gestalt Laws of Organization

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Group objects to make simple stimuli

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Continuity

Gestalt Laws of Organization

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False Perceptions

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Illusions
Ex:
-Moon Illusion

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Processing use of your beliefs knowledge and experience to determine what you are seeing

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Top-Down

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Details to determine what you are seeing

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Bottom-up

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Absolute Threshold

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Psychophysics of Vision

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Lowest level of stimulation to be detected 50% of the time

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Absolute Threshold

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Smallest difference between stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time

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Just Noticeable Difference (JND)

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