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Prosopagnosia

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Face blindnes

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Bottom up processing

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Sensory analysis that starts at the entry level

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Top down processing

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Construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations

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Selective attention

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Conscious awareness focuses one particular thing

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Cocktail party effect

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The ability to attend to only one voice among many others

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Inattentional blindnes

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When a viewer’s attention was directed elsewhere, they missed otherwise obvious objects

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Change blindness

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When an object changes, but viewers fail to notice

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Popout stimuli

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Stimuli that draws our eye and demands our attention

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Absolute threshold

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The minimum stimulation necessary to detect a particular light, sound, pressure, taste or odor 50% of the time

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Signal detection theory

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Predicts when we will detect weak signals amid background stimulation

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Subliminal

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Below threshold

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Priming

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Predisposing one’s experience, expectations, motivation, and alertness

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Difference threshold

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Minimum difference a person can detect between two stimuli 50% of the time

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Weber’s law

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For a difference to e perceptible, two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion

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Sensory adaptation

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Diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation

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Transduce

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Transform

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Wavelength

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The distance from one wave peak to another

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Hue

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The color we experience

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Intensity

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The amount of energy in light waves

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Pupil

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Small adjustable opening surrounded by the iris

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Iris

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A colored muscle that adjusts light intake

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Lens

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Focuses incoming light rays into an image on the retina

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Retina

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Multi-layered tissue on the eyeballs sensitive surfaces

Sends light energy into neural impulses and forwards those to the brain

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Accomodation

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Lens focuses rays by changing its curvature

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Rods

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Retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray

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Cones

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Detect fine detail, functions in daylight or well lit conditions

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Optic nerve

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Carries neural impulses from eye to brain

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Blindspot

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Where the optic nerve leaves the eye

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Fovea

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Retina’s area of central focus, cones cluster here

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Bipolar cells

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Cones highway to the visual cortex

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Statistics on Cones and Rods

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Cones
6 million
centers
Low dim light
High color sensitivity
High detail
Rods
120 million
Periphery
High dim light
low color sensitivity
low detail
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Feature decectors

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Nerve cells that respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle, or movement

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Parallel processing

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Processing many aspects of a problem simultaneously

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Trichromatic theory

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Retina contains three different color receptors

Green, green, and blue

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Opponent process theory

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Opposing retinal processes enable retinal process

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Audition

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Sense or act of hearing

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Middle Ear

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Chamber contain the hammer, anvil, and stirrup that concentrate vibrations

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Inner Ear

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Innermost part of the ear containing the cochlea, semicircular canals, and vestibluar sacs

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Place theory

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Links pitch with eh place where the cochlea’s membrane is stimulated

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Frequency theory

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The rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tune, enabling us to sense pitch

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Conduction hearing loss

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Caused by damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea

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Sensorlineural hearing loss

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Caused by damage to the cochleas receptor cells or auditory nerve
Nerve deafness

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Cochlear implant

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Device that converts sounds into electrical signals and stimulates the auditory nerve through electrodes

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Kinesthesis

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System for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts

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Vestibular sense

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Sense of body movement and position, including the sense of balance

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Gate control theory

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Spinal cord contains a neurological “gate” that blocks or allows pain signals to pass

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Unami

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Savory meat taste, proteins to grow and repair tissue

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Sweet

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Energy source

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Salty

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Sodium essential to physiological processes

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Sour

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Potentially toxic acid

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Bitter

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Potential poisons

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Sensory interaction

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One sense may influence another

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Gestalt

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Emphasize our tendencies to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes

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Figure ground

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Organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from surroundings

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Monocular cues

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Depth cues, linear perceptive from one eye alone

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Phi phenomenon

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Illusion of movement when two or more adjacent lines blink on and off in quick succession

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Perceptual adaptation

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Ability to adjust to an artificially displaced field

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ESP

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Claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input

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Parapsychology

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Study of paranormal phenomena

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