UNIT 2- Sac 1 Definitions

Question 1

Sensation

Answer 1

Detecting and responding to sensory information that stimulates sensory receptors

Question 2

Transduction

Answer 2

Converting incoming sensory information into a form which can travel along neural pathways to the brain

Question 3

Camouflage

Answer 3

Hidden or disguised presence of a person, animal or object

Question 4

Visual illusion

Answer 4

perceptual misinterpretation of real sensory information

Question 5

Perceptual set

Answer 5

predisposition to perceive something in accordance with what we expect

Question 6

Size constancy

Answer 6

Recognising that an objects actual size remains the same, even though the size of the image it casts on the retina changes

Question 7

Interpretation

Answer 7

incoming sensory information is given meaning so that it can be understood

Question 8

Visual perception

Answer 8

Occurs through visual sensory system which consists of network of physiological structures involved in vision

Question 9

Taste perception

Answer 9

limited to the five senses. our experience of taste builds the experience of flavour too

Question 10

Flavour perception

Answer 10

Builds on taste perception by combining it with other perceptual experiences

Question 11

Brightness constancy

Answer 11

Tendency to perceive an object as maintaining its level of brightness, despite changes in the amount of light being reflected from the object to the retina

Question 12

Shape constancy

Answer 12

Tendency to perceive an object as maintaining its shape despite any change in shape of the image of the object on the retina.