video quiz 5 +6 Flashcards
can’t recognize his own face in the mirror
oliver sacks
a neurological disorder that impairs a person’s ability to perceive or recognize faces
prosopagnosia
the bottom-up process by which our senses, like vision, hearing and smell, receive and relay outside stimuli
sensation
the top-down way our brains organize and interpret that information and put it into context
perception
the minimum stimulation needed to register a particular stimulus fifty percent of the time
absolute threshold of sensation
a model for predicting how and when a person will detect weak stimuli partly based on context
signal detection theory
we perceive differences on a logarithmic not a linear scale
weber’s law
ability to analyze and process information from different aspects at once
parallel processing
little man
homonculus
sound moves in the form of
waves
long waves have a
low frequency
directional streoephonic hearing only happens bc we have
two ears
5th taste
umami
one sense can influence the other
sensory interaction
the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body
synesthesia
chemical senses
taste and smell
emotional registry
amygdala
memory keeper
hippocampus
four distinct sense sensations
pressure, warmth, cold, and pain
the way your body senses its own movement and positioning
kinesthesis
monitors your head’s position and your balance
vestibular sense
