W4 - sensation and perception Flashcards
connection between:
Neural World and Physical World
Transduction
connection between:
Physical World and Psychological World
Action
connection between:
Psychological World and Neural World
Perception
Psychophysics
The realtionship beween physical and psychological worlds via the nueral world
wave lengths of light are phyically classed as?
electromagnetic Energy
the range of human vs dog hairing
Human: 64Hz - 23,000Hz
Dog: 67Hz - 45,000Hz
phyiscal form of colour
wavelength
phyiscal form of temperature
kinetic energy
phyiscal form of aroma
chemical shape
phyiscal form of texture
vibration
phyiscal form of pitch
frequancy
phyiscal form of loudness
amplitude
phyiscal form of pain
tissue damage
Absolute Threshold
The smallest amount of stimulation needed for detection by a sense.
Discrimination Threshold
whether you can tell the diffrenace
sesitivity
How well can you distinguish between when th stimulus is present or adsent.
Sensitivity means you have a high hit rate and a low false alarm rate
Response bias
presented with the sam stimulus intesity, different participants migt respond differently not because they have different perceptual sensistivities, but because they are more/less biased in respoinding to the task.
Signal Detection Theory
allows us to seperate sensitivity from response bias and distuish between them
what does the Discrimination Threshold depend on
how big/strong/bright/loud the origial stimulus is.
Just noticeable difference (JND)
discrimination threshold:
smallest perceivable difference
The smallest difference needed in order to differentiate two stimuli. (see Differential Threshold)
Weber’s Law
States that just noticeable difference is proportional to the magnitude of the initial stimulus.
Weber Fraction
K = JND/baseline
My grandmother has a very hard time hearing my older brother when he talks, but she hears me just fine. We think we speak at the same volume. What might you conclude about grandmother’s hearing?
her absolute threshold for high frequencies has increased.
Have you ever had a false sensation that your phone has vibrated to indicate you have a message, but when you check, there’s nothing there. In signal detection terms, this is an example of
a false alarm
The Weber fraction for telling that two sounds have a different amplitude is .04 (or 4%). If I present a first tone that is 20 decibels, how many decibels will a louder tone need to be for me to tell they are different?
28dB
rods
Photoreceptors of the retina sensitive to low levels of light. Located around the fovea.
cones
Photoreceptors of the retina sensitive to color. Located primarily in the fovea.
Trichromatic Theory
Colour perception is mediated by cones.
There are three cone types: S-cones are most sensitive at short wavelengths (blue), M-cones at medium wavelengths (green), and L-cones at long wavelengths (red).
Your brain perceives colour based on the combination of photoreceptors that are activated in a specific location.
Ishihara plate
a way of determining colour blindness
Colour vision deficits (colour blindness)
here are two basic forms. Either the person has only one type of cone
(monochromat – very rare) or two types (dichromat)
Callitrichids
Marmosets, tamarins, capuchins - gendered colour defficencey
Males – dichromats
Females – dichromats and trichromats