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test 3 Flashcards

1
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Sensation

A

Window to outside world (physical aspect)

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Perception

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Interpreting what comes in window

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3
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Transduction

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transforming signals into neural impulses (signals go through the thalamus and into various parts of the brain)

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4
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Cocktail party effect

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Focusing on one specific conversation while many conversations are going on in the background

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5
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Change Blindness

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Not noticing little details of past events (this is why many on site witnesses are not good in court)

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6
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Absolute threshold

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point where you can sense the stimulus 50% of the time

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7
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Sensory Adaption

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Decrease in responsiveness to stimuli due to constant stimulation… i.e not seeing your nose

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8
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Wavelengths..Blue? Red?

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Blue= fast

Red=slow

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9
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Amplitude…Large? Small?

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Large= bright 
Small= dull
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10
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Rods

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lots more than cones
low detail
low color
high sensative in dim light

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Cones

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Less than rods 
right in the middle
high detail 
high color
low sensitive in dim light
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12
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Monochromatic color blindness

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(Very rare) everything is one color

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13
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Di-chromatic color blindness

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People have either blue and green or blue and red cones.

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14
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Opponent process theory

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sensory receptors come in pairs (red/green) (blue/yellow)

black/white

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15
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cataracts

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clouding of the lens

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16
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Mocular Degeneration

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fovea wears out (everything becomes fuzzy and you can’t focus)

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17
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Detached Retina

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can’t get out signals; you have blind spots

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18
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Hyperopia

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farsighted

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19
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Myopia

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nearsighted

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20
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Top Down Processing

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Taking a big picture and breaking it down to find meaning..using what we know we work backwards and fill in gaps

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21
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Bottom up Processing

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All tiny features of something..we use the features on object to build perception. It takes longer than top down processing but is more accurate

22
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Gestalt Psychology

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How we group things together

proximity, similarity, continuity, closure

23
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Retinal Disparity

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As an object gets closer to us, the differences in images between our eyes becomes greater

24
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Convergence

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as an object gets closer, our eyes have to come together to keep focused on that object

25
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Constancy

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objects change in our eyes as we or they move, but we are able to maintain content perception

26
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Steps of hearing sounds

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Eardrum to hammer to anvil to stirrup

27
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Place theories

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says different hairs vibrate in the cochtea when they hit different places

28
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Frequency theory

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all hairs vibrate, but at different speeds

29
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Conduction Deafness

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When something goes wrong with the sound and vibrates on the way to the ear

30
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Sensorinenal Deafness

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The hair cells in cochlea get damaged

Loud noises cause this type of deafness

31
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Hypnotic Induction

A

Getting someone to the state where they will be open to suggestions

32
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Substance use Disorder

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Knowing that a drug is bad but keep on doing it anyway

33
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Addiction

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when someone is addicted they aren’t doing it to get high they just want to avoid the crash

34
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4 types of touch

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pressure, warmth, cold, pain

35
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small nerve fibers

A

how we experience pain

36
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large nerve fibers

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other senses and how we block pain

37
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Biopsychosocial approach

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Biological + psychological + social aspects that relate to pain. (Mr. Jennerjohn’s player who faked the injury.)

38
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papillae

A

bumps on the tongue (taste buds)

39
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Vestibular sense

A

vision plays big part in it
tells us why body is orientated in space
sense of balance
located in our semicircular canals in ears

40
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Kinesthetic sense

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Muscle memory (tells us where our body parts are. Receptors located in muscles and joints) example: max golfing

41
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synethesia

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one sensation produces another example: seeing one thing but hearing something else. (the professor saying ball but thinking its tall because youre looking at a tall dude)

42
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Insomnia

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not being able to sleep at night. best treatment: change behavior

43
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Narcolepsy

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falling asleep at weird and sudden times. going from being awake straight to REM sleep

44
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Sleep apnea

A

stop breathing while sleeping

45
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Night Terrors

A

Sleep walking/ talking

46
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Manifest content

A

dream content

47
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Latent content

A

what your dream means

48
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Why do we dream?

A

develop neural pathway

49
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signal detection theory

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detects when we will detect weak signals

50
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parallel processing

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being able to detect many things at once to know where someones next move will be

51
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Phi Phenomenon

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an illusion of light when two or more lights blink in quick succession

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