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Unit 4 Flashcards

1
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The curious mix of perfect vision and face blindness illustrates the distinction between…

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Sensation and perception

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The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment

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Sensation

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The process of organizing and interpreting sensory info allowing us to recognize events and objects

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Perception

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4
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Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brains integration of sensory information

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Bottom up processing

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Difference between bottom up and top down processing

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Bottom up: developing experiences when experiencing something for the 1st time.
Top down: prior experiences using past to build sensations

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6
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Simple definition of….

Energies or stimuli that are five major senses take in

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Sensation

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7
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Awareness of senses, simple definition

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Perception

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8
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Focus on stimuli with sensations

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Selective attention

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9
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Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

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I attentional blindness

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10
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Failing to notice changes in the environment

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Change blindness

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11
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The study of relationships between physicial characteristics of stimuli, like intensity and our psychological experience of them

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Psychophysics

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12
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Conversion of one form of energy to another, neural impulses

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Transduction

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13
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Minimum Point of detection, based on expectations alertness, and experiences. The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular similar 50% of the time

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Absolute threshold

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14
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Assumes there is no single absolute threshold and that detection varies from person to person.

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Signal detection theory

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15
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Below ones absolute threshold, take info in all the time

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Subliminal

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16
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Can link up one think with another to remember, activation of things—one perception, memory, or response

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Priming

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17
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Minimum amount of stimulus for something to alter before noting a change.

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Difference threshold

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18
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Principle that two stimuli differ by a constant percentage

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Weber’s law

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19
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More exposure to stimuli, less affect

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Adapting

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20
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To physical characteristics of light that help determine our sensory experience of them

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Wavelength and intensity

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21
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The distance from one wave peak to the next, determines its hue

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Wavelength

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22
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The color we experience

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Hue

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23
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The amount of energy in light waves, influences brightness

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Intensity

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24
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Cells that derive their name from their ability to respond to a scenes specific feature

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Feature detector

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25
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The processing of many aspects of a problem, the brains natural mode of information processing for many functions; contrasts step by step processing

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Parallel processing

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Combined info of color, movement, form, and depth

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Parallel processing

27
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Implies that the cones do their color magic in teams of three. The retina has three types of color receptors red green and blue.

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Young helmnolz tri theory

28
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As visual information leaves the receptor cells, we analyze it in terms of three sets of opponent colors, red green, yellow blue, and white black

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Opponent process theory

29
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Where does opponent processing occur

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Retina and thalamus

30
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The sense or act of hearing something

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Audition

31
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The number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time

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Frequency

32
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A toned highness or lowness, depends on frequency

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Pitch

33
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The chamber between the eardrum she cochlea containing tiny bones that concentrate the vibrations of eardrum

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Middle ear

34
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Coiled, bony, fluid filled tube in inner ear through sound waves trigger nerve impulses

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Cochlea

35
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Innermost part of the ear, contains cochlea, vestibular sacs, and canals

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Inner ear

36
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In hearing, the theory that links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochleae membrane is stimulated

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Place theory

37
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In hearing, the theory that the rate of nerve impulses traveling up auditory nerve matches frequency of a tone

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Frequency theory

38
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Types of hearing loss

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Conduction and sensorineural

39
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Hearing loss caused by damage to mechanical system that conducts sound waves to cochlea

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Conduction

40
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Hearing loss caused by damage to cochleae receptor cells or auditory nerves

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Sensorineural

41
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device for converting sounds into electrical signals stimulating auditory nerve into the cochlea

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Cochlear implant

42
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Skin senses

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Cold
Heat
Pressure
Pain

43
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System for sensing position of body parts

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Kinesthesis

44
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Sense of body movement, balance

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Vestibular sense

45
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The theory that the spinal cord has a gate that blocks pain signals or allows them to get to brain

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Gate control theory

46
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One sense many influence another

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Sensory interaction

47
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Perceptual tenancy to organize stimuli into groups

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Grouping, gestalt

48
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Ability to see objects in three dimensions, allows us to judge distance

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Depth perception

49
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Depth cues, depend on using two eyes

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Binoculars cues

50
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Binocular queue for perceiving depth

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Retinal disparity

51
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Depth cues like interposition and linear perspective, available to either eye

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Monocular cues

52
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When two adjacent lights blink on and off, we think it’s a single light moving back and forth

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Phi phenomenon

53
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Perceiving familiar objects as having constant color

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Color constancy

54
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Mental, perceive one thing and not the other

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Perceptual set

55
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Ability to adjust to an artificial visual field

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Perceptual adaption

56
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claim that perception can occur from sensory output

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ESP

57
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What are the chemical sensations

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Taste and smell

58
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How do we perceive motion

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Parallel processing

59
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Telepathy

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Mind to mind

60
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See events in future

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Clairvoyance

61
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See remote events as they’re happening

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Precognition

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