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Unit 3: Sensation and Perception Flashcards

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Sensation

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sensory receptors work normally, transmit information

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perception

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organization and interpretation of sensory information

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selective attention

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focusing on certain stimulus

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inattentional blindness

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failing to see something when you are focused elsewhere

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choice blindness

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failure to recall a choice immediately after we have made that choice

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Selective Inattention

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+ inattentional blindness - failing to see something when you are focused elsewhere

+ Choice Blindness - failure to recall a choice immediately after we have made that choice.

+ Change blindness - failing to notice changes in the environment

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absolute threshhold

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minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus
+ 50% of the time

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Weber’s law

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principle that if something can be perceived as different, the two stimuli must be different by a constant percentage

+ ex. a person is much more likely to react to a quiet commercial that suddenly doubles in volume than a commercial that only slightly increases in volume

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signal detection theory

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predicts when we detect presence of faint stimulus amid background stimulation

+ it varies on the persons experience

+ ex. a mother is more likely to hear a babies while others don’t

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cocktail effect

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ability to focus one’s auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli.

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subliminal stimulation

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unnoticed background stimuli usually is not processed cognitively
+ no lasting effecfts

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sensory adaptation

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brain focuses on informative information, doesn’t respond to constant repetition

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perceptual set

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mental tendencies and assumptions that affects top-down, what we wear, taste, feel and see

Influenced by:
+ context
+ stereotypes
+ emotions

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motivation

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depends on cravings and focus

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bottom-up processing

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starts with sensory receptors and takes the information through the brain

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top-down processing

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brain deciphers information and uses experiences and expectation s to construct perception

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cornea

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the transparent covering over the eye serving as barrier between inner eye and outside world

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pupil

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opening in the eye that lets light in

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iris

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muscles that contract to adjust the amount of light

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lens

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transparent structure that provides additional focus

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retina

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light sensitive lining - collects visual info

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rods

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specialized types of photo receptors that work best in low light conditions
+ work on the outer layer of the retina

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cones

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specialized types of photoreceptors that work best in bright light conditions

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ganglion cells

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transmit signals from bipolar cells to optic nerve

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bipolar cells

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transmit signals from photoreceptors to ganglion cells

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How does vision work?

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eye receive light information and transduce or transform into neural signals

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Amplitude and wavelength

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+ red - long wavelength
+ purple- short wavelength

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Fovea

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+ area of central focus
+ color

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optic chiasma

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separates left to right fields

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Young Hemholtz Trichromatic theory

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RGB can make any color
+ eye must have these receptors
problem:
why do red-green colorblind people see yellow

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opponent process theory

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+ sensory receptors are organised in pairs
+ fatigued sensors become less sensitive as you stare longer

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Feature detection

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+ highly specialized visual cortex area
+ neurons that respond only to specific stimuli/features

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Parallel processing

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the brain simultaneously: organizes color, movement, form and depth

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Retinal processing

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. When light hits the retina, it stimulates photoreceptors, creating an electric signal that is conveyed through other neurons

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feature detection

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specific cells clusters respond to its specific features of the bear

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recognition

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compare data to stored information: matches data to a bear

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gestalt

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organize form or whole

principles:
depth perception
+ allow us to judge distance
+ see 3D even though retina is 2D

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figure-ground

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he ability to differentiate an object from its background.

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grouping

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figure into meaningful form
+ how we create a whole that is more than the parts

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Binocular cues

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two eyes help perception of depth

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retinal disparity

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by comparing images from the two eyes the brain calculate distance

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monocular cues

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depth cues for individual eye

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interposition

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the overlap between horses allows you to perceive depth

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phi phenomena

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illusion of movement when adjacent lights blink

45
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perceptual constancy

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the perception of an object or quality as constant even though our sensation of the object changes

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how does hearing(audition) work?

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ears take the vibrations and convert (transduction) them to nerve pulses

47
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conduction hearing loss

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happens when sounds cannot get through the outer and middle ear. It may be hard to hear soft sounds. Louder sounds may be muffled.
(can be improved)

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sensory neural hearing loss

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Hearing loss caused by damage to the inner ear or the nerve from the ear to the brain.

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congenital

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hearing loss at birth

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place theory

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we hear different pitches because sound waves trigger different parts of the membrane in the cochlea

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frequency theory

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the rate of neural impulses travelling up the auditory nerve matches frequency of the tone and allows us to hear pitch
+ higher/lower sound- neurons fire faster/slower

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nociceptors

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sensory receptor that detect temp, pressure, and chemicals

depends on:
+ genetics, and gender

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spinal cord in relation to pain

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pain “gate”
+ larger fiber stimulation can interrupt small fiber (pain) signals

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phantom pain

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pain from missing body parts

55
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natural pain kilers

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endorphins

56
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unique type of taste

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unami: proteins to grow/repair

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why taste?

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+ food can bring pleasure
+ bitter taste could mean dangerous
+ survival advantages

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smell - olfaction

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+ “old” sense does not go through thalamus
+ powerful memories associations

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process of smell

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olfactory bulb -> limbic system (amygdala and hippocampus)

60
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kinesthesia

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movement sense
+ spatial processing
+ parietal lobe

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vestibular sense

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movement sense - enables balance
+ motion sickness
+ vestibular sacs and semicircular canal

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semicircular canal

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three tiny, fluid-filled tubes in your inner ear that help you keep your balance.

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embodied congnition

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how bodily sensation influences our cognition and judgement

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sensory interaction

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+ smell + texture + taste = flavour

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synthesia

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+ you hear music but see shapes
+ you hear a word and see a color

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action potential

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ganglion cells attached to optic nerve which generate an action potential

67
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3 middle ear bones

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+ hammer (malleus)
+ anvil (incus)
+ stirrup (stapes)

68
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psychophysics

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study of quantitive relations between psychological events and physical events, or more specifically, between sensations and the stimuli that produces them

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