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Sensation & Perception Flashcards

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Sensation

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What an individual feels when a stimulus reacts with a receptor.

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Sensory Threshold

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The necessary strength of a stimulus to instigate an action potential

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Habituation

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The filtering out of unchanging stimuli

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Cornea

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Cover of the eye that angles light into the pupil

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Aqueous Humor

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Clear liquid nourishing and diffracting the eye

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Pupil

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The center region in which light travels through and is dilated by the iris muscles

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Retina

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The back of the eye which contains photoreceptors

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Lens

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Angles light farther to converge on the retina in the back of the eye

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Fovea

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The central region in the retina with the highest concentration of photoreceptors

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Blind Spot

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The location of the optic nerve where there are not photoreceptors

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Vitreous Humor

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Liquid in the eye that bends the light the most… converges on the retina

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Rods

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non-color photoreceptors that work in low light

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Cones

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Photoreceptors that collect the high intensity color light; produce colored vision and the sharpness an image has, due to their higher concentration

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Trichromatic Theory

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There are three colors of photoreceptors (red, blue, and green ) which produce the rainbow of colors we see when activated in various proportions

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Opponent-Process Theory

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There are four types of cones, (red, blue, green, and yellow) that go in pairs, [red with green, and blue with yellow] that are activated by different colors and when fatigued cause the opponent cone to be stimulated more shifting the color visualized

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Afterimage

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visual sensation that persists briefly after stimulus ends

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Colorblindness

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One kind or many kinds of cones that are damaged causing one to see in limited colors and grays

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Place Theory

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Cell hairs closer to the oval window vibrate at higher frequencies than those farther away

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Volley Principle

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Cell hairs alternate firing which adds up to a desired frequency

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Frequency Theory

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BLAH BLAH

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Conduction Impairment

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The sound waves aren’t sent from the eardrum to the cochlea

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Nerve Hearing Impairment

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The signal isn’t sent down the nerves due to auditory pathway damage

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Five Tastes

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Sweet, Sour, Bitter, Salty, Umami(Brothy)

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Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA)

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The inability to feel pain

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Kinesthetic Sense

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The location of body parts in relation to another

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Vestibular Sense

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Otolith organs and semicircular canal that tell the movement of the body (example… the ears tell head movement)

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Size Constancy

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A objects size remains the same no matter the distance away

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Somatic Pain

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2 kinds of skin pain

  • The initial sharp intense pain
  • The longer lasting throbbing or aching pain
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Figure-Ground

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The perceiving of objects as existing in the background

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Motion Sickness

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Nauseous feeling arising from the difference between what the eyes see and what the ears are sensing

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Reversible Figures

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The background and figure are interchangeable

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Proximity

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When things are together they tend to be grouped in clumps

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Similarity

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Things are perceived to be from the same group when they look alike/similar

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Closure

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Tendency to finish object’s shapes that are not complete

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Continuity

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One tends to see a large image over the complex broken pieces composing it

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Contiguity

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How one tends to perceive things close in time as being connected

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Shape Constancy

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Objects are given a specific shape even if looked at in a weird angle

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Linear Perspective

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Lines parallel appear to converge as they move into the distance

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Relative Size

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Due to size consistency, the smaller an object is the farther away it is

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Overlap

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Objects blocked by another are farther away

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Aerial Perspectivee

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Far away objects are hazier because of dirt, dust, and pollutants

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Texture Gradient

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A pattern farther away - the pattern is less likely to be seen

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Motion Paradox

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Objects farther away look to move slower

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Convergence

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The movement of the eyes when focusing on an object

- Converge (cross-eyed) when objects are close

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Binocular Disparity

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The summation of what both eyes seem from their different perspectives

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Brightness Constancy

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Objects will be perceived to have a specific brightness no matter the light change

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