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Sensation & Perception Flashcards

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Sensation

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Taking info from the environment through sense organs and turns it into neural signals

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Perception

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How our brain makes sense of the info that are senses provide

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Bottom-up processing

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Starting at the sensation and forming a perception as you get more info. (building up)

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Top-down processing

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Starting at the perception and confirming what you already know

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Selective attention

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Focusing out awareness on one type of stimulus and ignoring others

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Inattentional Blindness

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Failing to see an object when out attention is elsewhere

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Absolute threshold

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The awareness/activation of a sense

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Signal detection theory

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When we anticipate a stimulus so we are more likely to detect it

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Subliminal messages

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occur bellow are absolut threshold and are not consciously perceived

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Priming

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Increased sensitivity to certain stimuli due to prior experience related to visual or audio messages.

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Difference threshold

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A sense is activated and the point you notice a change

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Webers law

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The amount of change needed to detect a difference is equal to the size of the original stimuli

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Sensory adaptation

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Getting use to a sensation and being unable to detect after a period of time

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Perceptual sets

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Tendency to use surrounding info to help interpret what we experience in the world

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How dose the environment impact our perceptual sets

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How does the ENVIRONMENT impact our perceptual sets

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It can change ow you perceive the info

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How does MOTIVATION impact our perceptual sets

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Forces us to focus on one thing that is relevant at that point in time.

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How dose EMOTIONS impact our perceptual sets

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May force someone to see everything in a negative light

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Hue of colors

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The wave length

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Stroop Effect

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the Stroop Effect allows us to measure a person’s selective attention capacity and skills, as well as their processing speed ability.

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Cornea

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Protective outer layer of the eye

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Pupil

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Controls how much light is allowed into the eye

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Iris

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Colored part of the eye

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Lens

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Bends light and focuses it on the retina to help you see images clearly.

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optic nerve

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sends info to the thalamas

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Cones

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Color and fine detail

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Rods

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light and dark (black and white) and peripheral vision

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schemas

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concept frame-works that allow us to organize and interpret information

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Figure-Ground

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We organize things into figures that stand out from our surroundings.(background)

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Proximity

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Things that are close to on another appear to belong to the same group

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Continuity

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We perceive a flow of items so it appears to go on even if it doesn’t

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Closure

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Our brain fills in the gap to close of an object even if it isn’t closed

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Similarity

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We group things that are similar to one another into the same group

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Connectedness

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We group things that are touching one another

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Phi Phenomenon

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Motion is perceived because lights blink to make you perceive motion.

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Stroboscopic Movement

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Motion is produced by rapid succession of slightly varying images.

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Visual Cliff

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Device to test depth perception in infants suggests that depth perception is innate.

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Binocular Cues

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Used by both eyes to perceive 3D

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Retinal Disparity

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Each eye gets a slightly different image but your brain combines them together

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Convergence

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Ability of your eyes to turn inward to see things really close to you face

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Monocular Cues

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Used by only one eye to perceive depth; used to see a 3D image in a 2D image

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Relative Height

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Farther away=higher in visual field closer=lower in visual field

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Relative Motion

motion parallax

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As we move objects that are actually stable may appear to move

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Relative Size

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Close=larger, farther away=smaller

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Interposition

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Something in front of another object lets you know the front object is closer.

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Linear Perspective

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Two parallel lines appear farther apart=coser, lines getting closer to each other=farther

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Light and Shadow

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Shading produces a sense of depth consistent with our assumption that light comes from

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Texture Gradient

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Objects far away look smooth

Objects closer look rough

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Relative Clarity

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Hazy objects appear farther away

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Sound waves length detriment…

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pitch

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The three bones in the ear

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Hammer
Anvil
Stirrup

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Sensorineural hearing loss

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damage to hair in ear fixed with a hearing aid

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Conduction hearing loss

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caused by damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea. fixed by cochlear implant

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Place Theory

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location, where hair cells bends, determines high pitches

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Frequency Theory

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How fast a neural impulses travels determines low pitches

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the gate-control theory

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says that we experience pain only if the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain.

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5 basic tastes

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sweet, sour, bitter, salty, & umami

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Kinesthesia

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sense of body position and awareness of body parts in space

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Vestibular sense

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sense of balance and orientation; keeps our body upright while standing, sitting, or walking

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sensory interaction

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one sense influence another

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