Sensation Vs Perception Flashcards
What is psychophysics?
The study of how physical stimuli are transformed into psychological experience
Gustav Fletcher invented the concept of
Threshold
What is Weber’s law?
the change in a stimulus that will be just noticeable is a constant ratio of the original stimulus.
What is SDT?
Signal detection theory
How can you detect stimuli?
Noise and decision making
What is sensory adaptation?
A decline in sensitivity
What is subliminal perception?
Existence vs practical effects for example repeating positive affirmations can’t always be positive.
How many types of neurons in the retina and what types!?
Rods 120M and Cones 6M
Light is transformed into
Neural impulses
The rods and cones are against the… at the back of the eye. Cones focused in the..
Retina .. middle
The 2 theories of colour are
Trichromatic (3types of cones)and opponent process theory (3 types of color receptors)
Sometimes, the brain has to..
Fill gaps with the Gestalt principles of form perception
The parts of the ear
Ear canal, nner
