Sensation/Perception Flashcards

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Signal detection theory

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The effects of non-sensory factors such as experiences, motives, and expectations on perception of stimuli

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Adaptation

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Decrease in response to stimulus over time

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What part of the eye produces aqueous humour, what does this do and where is it drained?

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Ciliary body produces aqueous humour, which bathes the front part of the eye before draining into the canal of Schlemm

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Which part of the retina contains mostly cones and then which part is only composed of cones?
What field of view does this section correspond to?

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The macula is the part of the retina that contains mostly cones
The fovea contains only cones
Corresponds to the central field of view

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What is the white part of the eye?

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Sclera

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What are the three colours of cones?

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Red, green, blue

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What happens when light hits a rod or cone?

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Turns them off…
And turns on the bipolar cells which turns on the ganglion cell and then signal gets passed to the optic nerve

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What occurs during the phototransduction cascade?

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Light hits cone and the rhodopsin inside of the rod —> which causes retinal inside of the rhodopsin to change shape —> which causes the rhodopsin to change shape —> causing the alpha subunit of transducin to break off and bind to phosphodiesterase (PDE) —> which transforms cGMP to GMP —> closing Na channels (hyperpolarizing the cell) and causing the rod cell to turn off —> turning on the bipolar cell

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What cells perform edge sharpening of vision?

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Horizontal and amacrine cells

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What parts of vision are detected by parvocellular cells?

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‘Parvo is particular’
- Form
- high colour spatial resolution (fine details)
- poor temporal resolution (bad with moving objects)

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What parts of visions do magnocellular cells

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‘Magno is for motion’
- No colour
- high temporal resolution (good for motion)
- low spatial resolution (bad with fine details)

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What is proprioception?

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Also called kinesthetic sense
The ability to tell where one’s body is in space

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What is included in monocular cues

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Relative size
Interposition
Motion parallax
Linear perspective

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What is included in binocular cues?

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Retinal disparity - slightly different images projected onto each retina
Convergence - brain detects the angle between the two eyes required to bring the object into focus

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Where are visual signals sent in the thalamus?

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The Lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) is for light

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What is the are of the thalamus that sound stimulus gets sent?

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The Medial geniculate nucleus (MGN) is for music

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What is the gate theory of pain?

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Pain sensation is reduced when other somatosensory signals are present

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What is the law of proximity?

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Elements close together tend to be perceived as a unit.

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What is law of similarity

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Objects that are similar tend to be grouped together

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Law of good continuation?

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Elements that follow the same pathway tend to be grouped together

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The law of good continuation?

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Elements that follow the same pathway tend to be grouped together

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What is subjective contours? Think gestalt principles

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Perception of non-existent edges in figures based on surrounding visual cues (pg. 82 of kaplan)

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Law of closure?

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When space is enclosed by a group of lines, it is perceived as closed or complete

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Law of closure

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When a space is enclosed by a group of lines, it is perceived as closed or complete

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What is Accommodation
When sometching new is presented and your schema must be changed or created to process the information.
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What is Place Theory?
Another name for tonotopical mapping. Pitches are correlated with their position on the cochlea
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What is spreading activation theory?
Spreading activation suggests that, when the representation of a concept is activated in memory, the activation spreads to concepts that are semantically or associatively related to it. Thus, people often retrieve unpresented members of a category when tested on their memory for a series of presented concepts from that category.
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What psychological approach is classical conditioning closely related to?
The behaviourist theory