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Unit 2: Sensory and Perception Flashcards

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Sensation

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Process when sensory receptors and nerves receive and represent stimuli energies

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Perception

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Organizing sensory information

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Bottom-up Processing

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Starts at sensory receptors and gives up to brain’s higher processing

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Top-down Processing

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Builds perceptions from sensory input by using experiences and expectations

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Selective attention

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Focusing on one stimulus

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Intentional Blindness

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Can’t see visual objects when focused on something else

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Change Blindness

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Don’t notice a change in the environment

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Transduction

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Convert one form of energy into another

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Psychophysics

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Studying relationship between physical things and our psychological reaction

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Absolute Threshold

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Minimum amount of stimuli to detect it 50% of the time

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Signal detection theory

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Prediction of when we can detect weak signals

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Subliminal

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Below the absolute threshold

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Prime

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Activation of the associations you might need later- priming the nerves

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Difference Threshold

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Minimum change to notice a noticeable difference in stimuli

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Weber’s Law

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Stimuli have to differ by a constant % to be ‘different’

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Sensory Adaptation

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Adapting to the senses around you so you have diminished sensitivity to them

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Perceptual Set

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Set of mental assumptions that affects what we perceive

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Extrasensory Perception (ESP)

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Claim that perception can be separate from sensory input (telepathy, etc)

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Parapsychology

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Study of the paranormal mind events

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Wavelength

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Determines color - distance between start of each wave

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Hue

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The ‘color’ of the wavelength

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Intensity

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Perceived as brightness - wave’s amplitude

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Pupil

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Opening of eye where light enters

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Iris

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Muscle tissue around pupil that controls it’s size

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Lens

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Behind the pupil - focuses light rays

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Retina

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Tissue on inner surface of eye (has receptor rods and cones and neurons)

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Accommodation

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When the lens changes it’s shape to focus light rays

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Rods

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Receptors that detect shades of grey (when cones don’t respond)

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Cones

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Near center of retina = color and details

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Optic Nerve

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Nerve that connects eye and brain

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Blind Spot

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Where optic nerve connects to eye - no receptor cells there

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Fovea

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Where cones cluster - center focus of retina

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Feature Detectors

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Cells in brain that respond to specific things of the stimuli (shape, angle, or movement)

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Parallel Processing

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Processing many parts of a problem at the same time

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Yang-Helmholtz Trichromatic (three-color) theory

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Retina has three different color receptors (red, blue, and green)

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Opponent-Process Theory

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Opposite retinal processes allow seeing in color

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Gestalt

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Organized whole

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Figure-Ground

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What objects stand out from the background

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Grouping

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Organize things into groups

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Depth Perception

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3D Vision

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Visual Cliff

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Test depth perception in infants and animals

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Binocular cues

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Perceive depth - depends on both eyes

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Retinal Disparity

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Different between the images each eye sees indications an object’s distance

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Monocular Cues

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Depth perception with just one eye

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Phi Phenomenon

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Illusion of continuous movement when it is really stroboscopic

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Perceptual Constancy

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Perception of object as unchanged when environment changes

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Color Constancy

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Perceiving objects as having the same color even as wavelengths change

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Perceptual Adaptation

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Adjust to an artificially altered field of vision

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Audition

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Hearing

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Frequency

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Number of wavelengths per unit of time

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Pitch

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Highness or loudness

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Middle Ear

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Contains hammer, anvil, and stirrup - concentrate vibrations

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Cochlea

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In inner ear - fluid-filled tube - send waves trigger nerve impulses

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Inner Ear

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Cochlea, semicircular canals and vestibular sacs

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Sensorineural Hearing Loss

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Damage to cochlea cells or auditory nerve cells

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Conduction hearing loss

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Damaged mechanical system that gets waves to cochlea

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Cochlear implant

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Converts sound into electrical signals and stimulates auditory nerve through the cochlea

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Place theory

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Different sound waves trigger activity at different places at cochlea’s basilar membrane

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Frequency theory

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Rate of nerve impulses matches frequency of tune

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Gate-Control theory

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Spinal cord can block or let through pain messages

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Kinesthesia

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Sensing your body movement

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Vestibular sense

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Monitors your head and body position and movement

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Sensory interaction

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One sense can influence another

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Embodied Cognition

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How bodily sensations can influence our judgements and preferences

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