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sensation psych 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absolute Threshold: | The minimum level of a stimulus needed to be detected. |
| Difference Threshold: | The smallest detectable difference between two stimuli. |
| Sensory Adaptation: | The diminishing sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus. |
| Top-down Processing | Using prior knowledge to perceive sensory information. |
| Bottom-up Processing: | Perceiving sensory information without prior knowledge. |
| Gestalt Principles | Rules governing how we perceive visual information as organized wholes. |
| Classical Conditioning | Learning associations between stimuli and responses. |
| Operant Conditioning: | Learning through reinforcement and punishment. |
| Extinction: | The weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response. |
| Spontaneous Recovery: | The reappearance of a conditioned response after a period of rest. |
| Generalization: | Extending a conditioned response to similar stimuli. |
| Discrimination | Distinguishing between a conditioned stimulus and other stimuli. |
| Correlation | a measure of the extent to which two variables change together, and thus of how well either variable predicts the other. |
| Correlation Coefficient | a statistical index of the relationship between two variables (from -1.0 to +1.0) |
| Scatterplot | a graphed cluster of dots, each of which represents the values of two variables. |
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