Chapter 6: Sensation & Perception
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| Sensation | show 🗑
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| Perception | show 🗑
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| show | Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information
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| show | Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations
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| Prospagnosia | show 🗑
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| show | The study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity, and our psychological experience of them
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| Absolute thresholds | show 🗑
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| Signal detection theory | show 🗑
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| Subliminal stimuli | show 🗑
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| Priming | show 🗑
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| show | The minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50 percent of the time. We experience the difference threshold as a just noticeable difference.
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| Weber's law | show 🗑
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| show | Diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation
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| show | Conversion of one form of energy into another. In sensation we talk about photo-transduction the act of seeing energy in the world and then translating that into neural impulses
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| Electromagnetic spectrum | show 🗑
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| Wavelength | show 🗑
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| show | The dimension of color that is determined by the wavelength of light.
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| Intensity | show 🗑
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| show | The distance from the bottom of the wave to the top of the same wave. Short amplitudes create dull colors and soft sounds. Great amplitudes create bright colors and loud sounds.
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| Cornea | show 🗑
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| Pupil | show 🗑
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| show | A ring of muscle tissue that forms the colored portion of the eye around the pupil and controls the size of the pupil opening
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| show | The transparent structure behind the pupil that changes shape to help focus images on the retina
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| Accomodation | show 🗑
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| Retina | show 🗑
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| show | The sharpness of vision
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| Nearsightedness | show 🗑
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| show | A condition in which faraway objects are seen more clearly than near near objects because the image of near objects is focused behind the retina
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| show | Retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray; necessary for peripheral and twilight vision, when cones don't respond.
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| show | Retinal receptor cells that are concentrated near the center of the retina and that function in daylight or in well-lit conditions. The cones detect fine detail and give rise to color sensations
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| show | The nerve that carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain
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| show | The point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye, creating a "blind" spot because no receptor cells are located there
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| Fovea | show 🗑
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| Feature detectors | show 🗑
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| Parallel processing | show 🗑
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| Serial processing | show 🗑
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| Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory | show 🗑
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| Subtractive color mixing | show 🗑
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| show | Combining red, blue, and green lights makes white light
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| show | The theory that opposing retinal processes enable color vision. For example, some cells are stimulated by green and inhibited by red; others are stimulated by red and inhibited by green.
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| show | The sense or act of hearing
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| Frequency | show 🗑
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| show | A tone's experienced highness or lowness; depends on frequency.
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| Outer ear | show 🗑
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| Middle ear | show 🗑
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| Cochlea | show 🗑
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| Basilar membrane | show 🗑
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| Place theory | show 🗑
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| show | In hearing, the theory that the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone, thus enabling us to sense its pitch.
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| show | Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wave-lengths reflected by the object
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| show | Hearing loss caused by damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea
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| show | Hearing loss caused by damage to the cochlea's receptor cells or to the auditory nerves; also called nerve deafness
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| Cochlear implant | show 🗑
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| Gate-Control theory | show 🗑
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| show | The principle that one sense may influence another, as when the smell of food influences taste
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| show | The system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts
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| show | The sense of body movement and position, including the sense of balance
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| Perceptual set | show 🗑
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| Context effects | show 🗑
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| Bipolar and Ganglion Cells | show 🗑
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| show | Acts as an information highway sending messages about visual images from the retina to the thalamus and eventually finally to the visual cortex for processing
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| Gestalt psychologists | show 🗑
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| Immanuel Kant | show 🗑
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| Visual capture | show 🗑
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| show | An organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.
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| Figure-ground relationship | show 🗑
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| show | The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups. There are five types of groups. Remember: Penelope Sings Christmas Carols Carelessly stands for Proximity, Similarity, Continuity, Connectedness, and Closure
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| show | One of the five types of grouping, we group nearby figures together
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| Similarity | show 🗑
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| show | One of the five types of grouping, we perceive smooth, continuous patterns rather than disconeinuous ones
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| show | One of the five types of grouping, because they are uniform and linked
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| Closure | show 🗑
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| show | The ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two-dimension; allows us to judge distance.
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| show | The psychologists who designed the visual cliff
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| show | A laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals designed by psychologists Gibson and Walk
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| show | Depth cues, such as retinal disparity and convergence, that depend on the use of two eyes.
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| Retinal disparity | show 🗑
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| Convergence | show 🗑
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| show | Depth cues, such as interposition and linear perspective, available to either eye alone, there are eight monocular cues
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| show | A monocular cue for perceiving depth, if two objects are similar in size then we perceive the one that casts the smaller retinal image as farther away
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| Interposition | show 🗑
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| show | A monocular cue for perceiving depth, we perceive hazy objects as further away than sharp, clear objects. In fog or snow, the car in front of you may therefore seem farther away than it is.
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| show | A monocular cue for perceiving depth, objects that are far away appear smaller and more densely packed.
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| show | A monocular cue for perceiving depth, objects that appear higher in our field of vision are seen as further away
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| Relative motion | show 🗑
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| Linear perspective | show 🗑
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| show | A monocular cue for perceiving depth, nearby objects reflect more light to our eyes
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| Phi phenomenon | show 🗑
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| Perceptual constancy | show 🗑
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| show | We perceive objects as having a constant size even while our distance from them varies
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| Shape constancy | show 🗑
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| Light constancy | show 🗑
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| Perceptual adaptation | show 🗑
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| Perceptual set | show 🗑
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| Human factors psychology | show 🗑
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| show | The controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input. Said to include telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition
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| Parapsychology | show 🗑
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| Hammar, Anvil, Stirrup | show 🗑
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| Auditory Nerve | show 🗑
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| Volley principle | show 🗑
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| show | An auditory illusion that proves that sensory interaction exists. In this case it is the idea that vision influences our perception of what is being said.
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| Synaesthesia | show 🗑
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| show | Sense of smell. The oldest sense. It is a chemical sense. It is not processed by the thalamus and is deeply connected to a person's memories and thus probably is connected to the limbic system
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| show | Study of paranormal phenomena
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