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Nat.Sensation&Perception

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Sensation   show
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Perception   show
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Bottom-up processing   show
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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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show The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time.  
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show 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.  
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show Below one's absolute threshold for conscious awareness.  
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Difference threshold   show
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show The principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage (rather than a constant ammount).  
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show Decreasing responsiveness to stimuli, due to constant stimulation.  
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Feature detectors   show
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Constancy (size, shape, color)   show
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Sensory habituation   show
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Cocktail-party phenomenom   show
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Kinesthesis [kin-ehs-THEE-sehs]   show
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Vestibular sense   show
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show 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  
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show chemical sense of taste  
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show chemical sense of smell  
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show objects that are close together are likely to be perceived as belonging in the same group  
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Similarity   show
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Continuity   show
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show 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  
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Gestalt rules   show
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Perceptual set   show
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Transduction   show
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Energy senses   show
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Chemical senses   show
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