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Unit 3 Highlight Flashcards

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Retinal Disparity

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Images from two eyes differ, finger sausage

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Convergence

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The 2 eyes more inwards to see near objects, outwards to see far objects

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Interposition

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Object that occlude other objects tend to be perceived as closer, tree in front of house

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Linear Perspective

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Parallel lines appear to converge in the distance; railroad tracks

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Inattentional Blindness

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In ability to see object or person that is right in front of you

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Change blindness

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Failure to notice a change in your environment

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Figure ground

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When we are looking at something, one thing will stand out and the rest is background

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Proximity

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Physical nearness

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Similarity

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When people or items look the same, we put them in one group

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Gibson and Walk - Visual Cliff

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Crawling baby stops at fiberglass clear part to not crawl off table

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Perceptual set

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Mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

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Schema

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Concept - understanding of the world on a personal level

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Opponent Process Theory

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After image: red-green, blue-yellow, black-white

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Synesthesia

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When you experience one of your senses through another

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Basilar Membrane

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Lines the cochlea with hair cells that transmit sound to the auditory nerve

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Place theory

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Pitch is determined by where the sound wave hits the basilar membrane

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Frequency Theory

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Pitch is determined by how quickly a sound wave arrives at the basilar membrane

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Cochlea

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Spiral shaped and fluid-filled inner ear structure lined with cilia (tiny hairs) that move when vibrated and cause nerve impulse to move

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Semicircular canals

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Three loops of fluid filled tubes attached to cochlea, helps us with sense of balance

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Conduction hearing loss

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Hearing loss by damage to mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea

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Sensorineural hearing loss

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(Nerve deafness) Hearing loss by damage to cochlea receptor cells or auditory cells.

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Touch sensations

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Pressure, warmth, cold, pain

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Gate control theory

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Spinal cord temporarily blocks impulses from being recognized to help get a person through something

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Kinesthetic

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Movement of muscles, joints, tendons

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Taste senses

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Umami, sweet, bitter, salty, sour

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Sensory interaction

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One sense affects another sense

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Smell

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Olfactory

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Smell and memories

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Brain region for smell is closely related to brain region for memory

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Sensation

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Detect physical energy from environment and convert it to neural signals

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Perception

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Select, organize, interpret our sensations

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Bottom-up

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No prior knowledge, just reaction

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Top-down

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Makes decision and judgement using prior knowledge

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Absolute threshold

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First moment you notice a stimulus

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Weber’s Law - JND

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When a change is noticed by a constant percentage or portion

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Signal detection theory

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Ability to ability to focus on one thing and ignore the rest

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Sensory adaptation

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Diminished sensitivity due to constant stimulation

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Transduction

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Transformation of stimulus energy into neural impulses

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Intensity

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Brightness - taller the wave, brighter the color

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Parallel processing

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Processing of several aspects of a thing all at once

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Trichromatic theory

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We have 3 main cones, red, green, and blue

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Photoreceptors

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Rods and cones

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Fovea

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Color vision

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Cornea

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Clear, dome shaped tissue covering the front of the eye

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Iris

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Colored part of the eye, controls amount of light that enters eye by changing size of pupil

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