Sensation & Perception Flashcards

1
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A Monocular cue. Closer objects block farther ones.

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Interposition

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2
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Three color receptors (red, green, blue).

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Trichromatic Theory

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3
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Height of a wave.

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Amplitude

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4
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Gestalt concept-Distinguishing objects from background.

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Figure and Ground

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5
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Missing changes in the environment when vision is interrupted.

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Change Blindness

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6
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Focusing on one voice in a crowd.

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Cocktail Party Effect

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7
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Sense of taste.

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Gustation

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8
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Inner ear canals for balance.

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Semicircular Canals

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9
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Missing visible objects when focused elsewhere

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Inattentional Blindness

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10
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Focusing on a particular stimulus.

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Selective Attention

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11
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Clearer vision for nearby objects.

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Nearsightedness

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12
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Responding to visual stimuli without conscious experience.

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Blindsight

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13
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Focuses images on the retina.

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Lens

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14
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Hearing loss from cochlea or nerve damage.

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Sensorineural Deafness

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15
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Perception from Sensory receptors to brain.

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Bottom-Up Processing

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16
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Sense of smell.

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Olfactory System

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17
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Sense of balance and body position.

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Vestibular Sense

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18
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Inability to recognize faces.

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Prosopagnosia

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19
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A Monocular cue. Hazy objects are farther away.

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Relative Clarity

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20
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Ability to perceive sound frequency.

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Pitch Perception

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21
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Converting stimulus energies into neural impulses.

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Transduction

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22
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Cells- detect color and detail; for bright light.

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Cones

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23
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Sensory control center in the brain.

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Thalamus

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24
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Pitch caused by all hairs in Cochlea moving together.

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Volley Theory

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25
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Two stimuli must differ by a constant percentage to be perceived as different.

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Weber’s Law

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26
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Monocular cue. Smaller images are farther away

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Relative Size

27
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Reduced sensitivity from constant stimulation.

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Sensory Adaptation

28
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Carries impulses from the eye to the brain.

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Visual Nerve

29
Q

Gestalt concept. Grouping nearby figures.

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Proximity

30
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Gestalt concept. Completing incomplete figures.

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Closure

31
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Spinal cord “gate” blocks/allows pain signals.

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Gate Control Theory

32
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Opposing retinal processes enable color vision.

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Opponent-Process Theory

33
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Perceiving whole forms out of parts

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Gestalt

34
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Distance between wave peaks.

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Wavelength

35
Q

Depth from comparing retinal images.

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Retinal Disparity

36
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Organizing and interpreting sensory information to understand the environment.

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Perception

37
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Lens changes shape to focus on objects.

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Accommodation

38
Q

Point where the optic nerve leaves the eye; no receptors,

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Blind Spot

39
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Framework organizing information.

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Schema

40
Q

Predisposition to perceive certain things.

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Perceptual Set

41
Q

Sense of body part movement.

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Kinesthesia

42
Q

Clearer vision for distant objects.

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Farsightedness

43
Q

Depth cues for one eye.

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Monocular Depth Cues

44
Q

Perceptions from experiences (brain) to body.

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Top-Down Processing

45
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Eyes converging inward for depth.

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Convergence

46
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Monocular cue. Parallel lines converging with distance.

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Linear Perspective

47
Q

Hearing loss from mechanical system damage.

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Conduction Deafness

48
Q

Gestalt concept. Grouping similar figures.

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Similarity

49
Q

Detecting physical energy and encoding it as neural signals.

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Sensation

50
Q

Detect black, white, gray; for low light.

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Rods

51
Q

Perceived highness or lowness of a tone.

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Pitch

52
Q

Partial color blindness.

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Dichromatism

53
Q

Complete color blindness.

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Monochromatism

54
Q

Light-sensitive inner eye surface with receptor cells.

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Retina

55
Q

Chemical signals for communication.

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Pheromones

56
Q

One sense perceived as multiple senses.

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Synesthesia

57
Q

Minimum stimulation needed to detect a stimulus 50% of the time.

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Absolute Threshold

58
Q

Depth cues using both eyes.

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Binocular Depth Cues

59
Q

Pitch linked to specific hairs in the Cochlea.

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Place Theory

60
Q

A Monocular cue. Coarse to fine texture signals distance

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Texture Gradient

61
Q

One sense influencing another

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Sensory Interaction

62
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Focusing awareness.

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Attention

63
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Visual images persisting after stimulus removal.

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After Images

64
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Information processing where we construct perceptions from our experiences and expectations.

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Top-Down Processing