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Unit 7- Sensation and Perception Flashcards

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sensation

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the process of how our receptors receive and represent information

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sensory receptors

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sensory nerve endings that respond to stimuli

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perception

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the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information

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bottom up processing

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begins at your sensory receptors and makes it’s way up to the other levels of processing

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top down processing

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makes perceptions from both sensory input and past experiences, can often be wrong

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selective attention

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when awareness focuses on a singular part of any experience

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cocktail party effect

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the ability to listen to one voice in a sea of many

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inattentional blindness

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the blindness of millions of visual stimuli to not overwhelm our minds

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change blindness

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failure to notice a change in environment

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signal detection theory

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predicts when we will detect certain signals

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transduction

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translation of physical energy into electrochemical energy for processing

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absolute threshold

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the minimum stimulation necessary to detect something

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subliminal

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stimuli that are below your threshold

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difference threshold

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the minimum stimulus difference a person can detect half of the time

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priming

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an unconscious preparation

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Weber’s Law

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for two stimuli to be different there has a to be a certain percentage difference

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sensory adaptation

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When constantly exposed to unchanging stimuli we become less aware of it

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wavelength

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the distance of one wave peak to another

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cornea

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the clear outer layer of the eye

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hue

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color we experience

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retina

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a multilayered tissue on the eyes inner surface

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intensity

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amount of energy a wave contains

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iris

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a colored muscle that dilates or contracts due to intensity

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lens

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transparent focuser

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pupil

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a small adjustable opening

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fovea

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point of central focus

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accommodations

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when the lens changes the color and focus of waves

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rods

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retinal receptors for black, white, grey, movement, peripheral and twilight vision

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cones

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retinal receptors for daytime and color sensations, only behind the fovea

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blindspot

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a place in your eye with no receptor cells

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light path

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cornea → pupil →lens → retina

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optic nerve

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where the axons twine together

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trichromatic theory (Young and Helmholtz)

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the retina contains three color receptors red, green and blue

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parallel processing

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processing multiple things at once

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opponent processing theory

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color depends if the red green, blue yellow, or white black process in the retina

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feature detectors

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nerve cells in the occipital lobes (visual cortex) that respond to a scenes edges, lines, angles and movements

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audition

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the act of hearing

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amplitude

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height of sound waves, determines loudness

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frequency

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the length of sound waves and determines the pitch (high or low tone)

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cochlea

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receives the transitions, is snail shaped, inside the inner ear, the vibrations open the oval windows and fluids ripple the basilar membrane which bends the hair cells on its surface

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decibels

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how sound amplitude is measured

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eardrum

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a tight membrane in the ear where sound waves first strike

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middle ear

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a piston made of three tiny bones, the hammer, anvil and stirrup, which picks up vibrations and transmits them

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auditory nerve

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where axons converge to carry the message to the thalamus then to the auditory cortex in the brains temporal lobe

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sensorial hearing loss (nerve deafness)

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caused by damage to the hair cells or auditory nerve

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conduction hearing loss

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caused by damage to the eardrum and middle ear bones

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cochlear implant

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a device that converts sound into electrical signals that stimulate the auditory nerve

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tactile sense

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our sense of touch

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endorphins

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a brains natural pain killer

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gateway theory of control

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it suggests the spinal cord has a neurological gate the controls the transition of pain to the brain

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phantom limb sensation

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when a limb is amputated you can feel pain where there shouldn’t be with incorrect CNS input

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placebos

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fake thoughts that convince your body it’s ok

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gustation

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our sense of taste

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olfaction

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the experience of smell

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kinesthesia

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our bodies movement sense

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vestibular sense

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our sense of body movement in balance

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sensory interaction

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one sense influencing another

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Megurk effect

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when our eyes see one sound our ear hears another so the brain blends them together

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embodied cognition

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the influence of body sensations, and gestures on cognitive preferences or judgments

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gestalt

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a form or whole of sensation clusters

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figure ground

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the ability to separate faces from their backgrounds

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grouping

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the tendency to organize randomness

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proximity

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we group nearby figures

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continuity

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we perceive smooth continuous patterns

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closure

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we fill in gaps

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visual cliff

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a model of a cliff with a drop off area that was fake, they then tried to coax 8 months old into going off but they would not

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depth perception

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the ability to see three dimensions despite the eye receiving two dimensions

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retinal disparity

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your brain compares images with both eyes to see distance

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binocular cues

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a depth cue that relies of the use of two eyes

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monocular cues

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depth cues available to each eye separately

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relative height

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we perceive objects higher up as further away

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relative size

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if two objects are similar in size then the one that has a smaller retinal image seem further away

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interposition

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if one object is blocking another it seems closer

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linear perspective

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parallel lines appear to meet in the distance, the sharper the angle of convergence the greater the perceived distance

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relative motion

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while moving still objects may seem to move

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motion perception

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the ability to correctly perceive approaching objects

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light and shadow

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shading creates a sense of depth

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stroboscopic motion

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perceives a rapid series of images varying as continuous movement

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phi phenomenon

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an illusion of movement when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off quickly

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perceptual adaptation

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the ability to adjust to changed sensory input

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perceptual set

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a set of mental predispostion to see on thing and not the other (fox,owl,turkey, d?ck vs. bob, tom, bill, d?ck)

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context

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what is surrounding us that affects our thinking

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extra sensory perception (ESP)

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the idea that perception can happen without sensory input

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telepathy

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mind to mind connection

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clairvoyance

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perceiving remote events in another state

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precognition

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perceiving future events

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parapsychology

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the study of paranormal phenomena

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