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Nat.Sensation&Percep
Nat.Sensation&Perception
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sensation | activation of sensory receptors prior to perception |
| Perception | The process of interpreting sensory information |
| Bottom-up processing | Analysis that begins with the sense receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information. |
| Top-down processing | Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations. |
| Absolute threshold | The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time. |
| Signal detection theory | Predicts how and when we detect the presence of a faint stimulus(signal) amid background stimulation(noise). Assumes there is no single absolute threshold and that detection depends partly on experience, expectations, motivation, and level of fatigue. |
| Subliminal | Below one's absolute threshold for conscious awareness. |
| Difference threshold | The minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50 percent of the time. We experience the difference threshold as a just noticeable difference. |
| Weber's law | The principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage (rather than a constant ammount). |
| Sensory adaptation | Decreasing responsiveness to stimuli, due to constant stimulation. |
| Feature detectors | neurons in the visual cortex that respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle, or movement. |
| Constancy (size, shape, color) | Our ability to maintain a constant perception of an object despite changes due to changing angles, variations in light, distance et. |
| Sensory habituation | our perception of sensations is partially due to how focused we are on them |
| Cocktail-party phenomenom | involuntary change of attention when you hear your name |
| Kinesthesis [kin-ehs-THEE-sehs] | sensing the position and movement of specific body parts. |
| Vestibular sense | The sense of where our body is in space including the sense of balance. |
| Gate-control theory | high priority pain messages open the neurological "gate" that blocks pain signals and allows them to pass on to the brain while blocking lower priority pain messages |
| Gustation | chemical sense of taste |
| Olfaction | chemical sense of smell |
| Proximity | objects that are close together are likely to be perceived as belonging in the same group |
| Similarity | objects that are similar in appearance are likely to be perceived as belonging in the same group |
| Continuity | objects that form a continuous form are more likely to be perceived as being in the same group |
| Closure | Like top-down processing, objects that make a recognizable image are likely to perceived even if the image contains gaps that the mind fills in |
| Gestalt rules | describe the principles that govern how we perceive groups of objects |
| Perceptual set | a predisposition to perceiving something in a certain way |
| Transduction | translation of incoming stimuli into neural signals |
| Energy senses | vision, hearing, touch |
| Chemical senses | taste and smell |
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