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Unit 4- Sensation and Perception Flashcards

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Sensation

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the way we take in information from the world around us

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Perception

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the way that we can process the information taken in through our senses

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Bottom up processing

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small details to big picture

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top down processing

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big picture and ignore small details

ex. scrambled letters

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Selective Attention

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the idea that our brain focuses its perception on what it believes to be most important at the time

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Cocktail Party Effect

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in a crowded space we will switch our attention to alert us to information that pertains to us
ex. name call

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psychophysics

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study of science behind how our senses work

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Absolute Threshold

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smallest amount of sensory stimulus that we can perceive

ex. candle 30 miles out

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signal detection theory

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idea that absolute threshold is dependent on many factors

e. experience, motivation, attention

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subliminal messages

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pieces of sensory information that exists below threshold

ex. primes but doesnt force

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difference threshold

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smallest amount we need to increase or decrease of a sense in order to notice the difference

ex. change in volume of music

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Weber’s Law

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The difference depends on a percentage range of the overall sensory stimulant
ex. by 10%

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Sensory Adaptation

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after perceiving a sense for an extended period of time we no longer notice it
ex. house no longer smells

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Wavelength

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effects the color visible to the eye

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Optic Nerve

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branch of neurons that connect our eye to our brain

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Fovea

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center for cones

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retina

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reflective covering of the back of the eye that contains rods and cones

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Iris

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  • muscle
  • colored
  • contracts and expands to light
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pupil

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hole that allows the light and image to enter the eye

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cornea

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protective covering of the eye

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Lens

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disk that changes shape to reflect the image into our eye

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Blind Spot

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where the optic nerve connects to the retina

small gap with no nerves

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Rods

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Receptors on ur Retina that help u see

Black & White/ Dark/ Peripheral

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Cones

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Color/ Light/ Central

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Feature Detectors

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neurons in the occipital lobe that allows us to see angles, shapes, and movement

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Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory

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we see color because of 3 main color cones in our retina

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Opponent Process Theory

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color vision depends on opposing sets in the OCCIPITAL LOBE

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Pinna

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  • outer ear

- collects sound

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Ear Canal

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passageway

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Ear Drum

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membrane that vibrates to amplify sound

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3 tiny bones

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hammer, anvil, stirrup

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hammer, anvil, stirrup purpose

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amplify sound

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frequency of sound waves determines

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the pitch

34
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Semi circular canal

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balance

35
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auditory nerve

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connects to brain

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transduction

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when a sensory message is turned into a neural message

37
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Cochlea

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filled with fluid and hair

transduce sound

38
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Frequency Theory

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perception of pitch is determined by the speed that the sound waves travel down the auditory nerve

cant explain high pitch because neuron cant fire fast enough

39
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Volhelmholtz place theory

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the pitch that we hear is determined by the sound waves striking the cochlea

cant explain low pitch
location hitting is hard to measure

40
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Conduction Hearing Loss

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damage to the outer or middle ear, thus causing sound to not be loud enough
(after born-damage, etc)

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Sensorineural Hearing Loss

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problems with the inner ear (cochlea and auditory never)

born with

42
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Cochlear inplants can fix what type of hearing loss

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Sensorineural Hearing Loss

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Inner ear

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chochlea and auditory nerves

44
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Coetaneous and Tactile

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touch

45
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touch receptors respond to

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pressure
pain
temp

46
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Gate Control Theory

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needs to have a certain amount of small fibers, sensory receptors r activated to open the large sensory receptors (brain, spine)

47
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Taste

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Gustatory Sense

48
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5 tastes and reasons

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sweet- energy (glucose)
sour-spoiled
salty- sodium (neuron firings)
bitter- poison
umami-protein
49
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Smell

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Olfactory Sense

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Sensory Interaction

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when 2 sense r strongly impacted by one another

taste/smell….smell/memory

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Kinesthesis sense

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sense of where body parts r when in relation to eachother

52
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vestibular sense

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overall sense of body position and balance

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Proprioceptors

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special neurons that allows us to sense our body position

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illusions

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mistakes in perception usually because of our expectations, experience, or top down processing

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Perceptual Set

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when our experience or expectation affects what we perceive

(mouse or face)

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color constancy

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we tend to assume that colors remain constant, even when they appear differecnt b/c of the lighting

57
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Gestalt

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idea that our brains will create an image that makes sense or looks complete
ex. horse

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Similarity

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grouping together similar things

column

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closure

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brain tends to finish images

open triangles

60
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proximity

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tends to group things that are similar to one another

vertical lines

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connectedness/ continuity

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our brain understands that an object continues

62
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Visual Cliff

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BABIES CAN PERCEIVE DEPTH

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Monocular cues

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need one eye

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Interposition

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when we know an object is closer to us because it blocks all other objects behind it

65
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visual texture

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objects that r closer to us have greater amounts of visual detail

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Binocular Cues

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needs 2 eyes

67
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Retinal Disparity

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when one eye percieve an image slightly different then the other, but then they blend the 2 together = greater depth perception
ex. thumb

68
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what helps with depth perception

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retinal disparity

69
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Eleanor Gibson and richard walk

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visual cliff

70
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Ernest Weber

A

WEBER’s LAW

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Herman von Helmholtz

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Young–Helmholtz theory

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phi phenomenon

A

optical illusion of perceiving a series of still images, when viewed in rapid succession, as continuous motion.

73
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Perceptual constancy

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tendency to perceive an object you are familiar with as having a constant shape, size, and brightness despite the stimuli changes that occur

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extrasensory perception

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sixth sense or second sight

75
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parapsychology

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study concerned with the investigation of paranormal and psychic phenomena

ex. near death

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hearing

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auditory

77
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middle ear

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3 bones

78
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parallel processing

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the ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming different stimuli

79
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cornea

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outermost layer

80
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Accommodation

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changes optical power to maintain a clear image or focus on an object as its distance varies

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