Sensation/Perception Flashcards
Define sensation
At the text visual, auditory and other sensory stimulus
Define perception
Sensory information is organized
Define sensory receptors
The text respond to one type of stimulus
Define transduction
The sensory system converts outside energy into a form that your brain can use.
Define sensory adaptation
Become less sensitive to unchanging sensory stimulus over time.
Define bottom-up processing
Taking sensory information and then sending an interrogating it
Define top up processing
We know the information based on experience, knowledge, assumption, and exception.
Define absolute threshold
You can detect a particular sound
Define subliminal stimulis
When you are without awareness, your sensory system process a sound that is below your absolute threshold.
Define differences threshold
Distinguish between two different stimulus sound
What are the three
Receive, transformation and deliver
Define Weber laws
That people won’t tell the difference by little changes
Define perceptual set
When people see things differently from mentally and assumption that changes our top down processing.
Ex: the rabbit or duck image
Define contexts effects
Our own perceptions based on different contexts
Define extra sensory perception
It claims that perception can occur.
Example telepath
