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2023- 2024, Sensation and Perception

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Definition
Sensation   process which sensory receptors receive energies  
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Transduction   physical to neural activity  
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Perception   process of organizing and interpereting sensory, starts by receiving, then transforming, lastly delivering to the brain energy senses - hearing and sight chemical senses - taste and smell  
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Bottom-Up Processing   completely sensory dependent, externally driven, first time for something and works up to the brain  
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Top-Down Processing   on experiences, expectations, sterotypes and assumptions, prior knowledge  
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Prosopangoia   perception problem  
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Selective Attention   focusing on conscious awareness, particular stimulation  
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Inattentional Blindness   failure to see visible objects  
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Change Blindness   failure to notice change  
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Cocktail Party Affect   singling out a voice amongst others  
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Absolute Threshold   what is the minimum amount of stimulation needed to detect something. Lower means quicker. goes against single detection theory  
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Single Detection Theory   no absolute threshold, depends on the person like: exceptions, experience, alertness and motivation.  
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Just Noticeable Difference - J.N.D.   minimum difference between two stimuli that can be detected at least 50% if the time  
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Webers Law   about % and difference between 2 stimuli must be by a constant percent  
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Sensory Adaptation   nerve cells get bored and stop firing, diminishing a persons sensitivity with constant stimuli  
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Influence on Perception   mental predisposition and context affects  
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White vs Black in Color   Black absorbs everything vs white absorbs nothing  
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Wavelength   creates color, amplitude is brightness of color  
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Red Wavelength   long wave length  
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Blue   short wave length  
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Hyperopia   far sighted  
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Myopia   near sighted  
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Iris   ring of muscle, color portion, controls opening  
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Retina   light senstive area, where cones and rods are  
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Lens   changes shape to help open and focus images  
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Blind Spot   no cell receptors  
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Fovea   central focus poin, eye cones cluster  
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Optic Nerve   carries neua=ral impulse to octpical nerve  
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Crossing in eye   called optic chassim  
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Cones   are for color  
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Rods   perphiny of retina, black, white, gray  
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Order in Eye, starts from back   cones and rodes, then bi polar cell, gaglion cell  
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Feature Detectors   occipital lobe, lines, edges, angles and movement  
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Parallel Processing   processing of many aspects of stimulation  
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Gesalts   P.I.N.K grouping and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts  
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Types of Groupings   Proximity, Continuity, Similarity, Conectedness, and closure  
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Figure Ground   visual field into objects (figures) and stand out from surroundings (ground)  
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Depth Perception   ability to see 3D  
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Visual Cliff   hardwires to pick up depth (nature)  
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Retinal Disparities   binocular cues, moving images from the retinas in the two eyes to the brain to compute differences  
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Convergence   binocular cues, objects come closer, eyes go together  
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Linear Perceptive   monocular cues,, the closer they cover the further they are in distance  
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Relative Height   monocular cues, the higher things go up, the further away they seem  
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Relative Size   monocular cues, smaller the image, the further away  
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Light and Shadow   monocular cues, concave and convery, closer object have more light and further seem dimmer  
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Relative Motion. Motion Paralax   monocular cues, the faster things move, the closer while further away takes longer like looking out a window when driving  
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Interposition   monocular cues, things are stacked, cover up is the furthest  
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Motion perspective   seeing when there is nothing  
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Stroboscopic Effect   motion in a series of still photos  
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Phi Phenomenom   two lights flashing, gives perception one light is moving  
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Perceptual Constancies   unchange even with different size, shape, color, lightness, when illuination, shap and angle  
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Perpetual Adaptation   adapting to invert perceptual fields  
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Young-Helmholt Trichromatic Theory   color perception comes from 3 different color receptors in retina, Three Types of Cones, blue red green and color blindness is 1 cone working, two cones or three (mono, di, tri)  
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Oppenent Processing Theory   opposing retinal processing enable color vision, red and green, yellow and blue, black and white.  
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after imagaing   looking at imagaing and then blank screen and seeing the image  
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Cataracts   cloudy lenses  
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Gluacoma   fluids build up inside the eyes  
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Retinopathy   blood vessels leak from retina  
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Macular Regeneration   Fovea wears out  
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Sound Waves   amplitude is loudness, length/frequency is pitch example. long waves have low frequency  
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Pinna   external part of ear  
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Tympanic Membrane or Eardrum   skin in ear  
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Hammer, Anvil/Incus and Stirups.Stapes   middle of ear, 3 tine bones that concentrate vibrations  
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Oval Window   conducts vibration to the cochlea  
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Cochlea   inner ear, fluid vibrates basilar membrance bending hair celss forming auditory nerve  
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Auditory Nerve   auditory message to brain through thalamus  
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Sounds Transduction   sound waves are converted to neural impulse  
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Ear perceiving damage is   irreversible  
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Tinnitus   phantom ringing, hears are permanently moved  
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Conduction Deafness   occues when sound cant get through outer and middle ear, some solutions that are possible are hearing aid, bone replacement  
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Sensorineural Deafness   damages to the cochlea hairs or auditory nerves, no way to replace the hears by cochlear implant is possible in some causes  
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Place Theory   determine by the place on baislar membrance  
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Frequency Theory   frequency which hair celss in the cochlea are fired  
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Gate Control Theory   spinal cors has a neurological gate that blocks signals to pass on to the brain. Normally the gate is open by activity of pain signals travelling ip small nerve fibers. This is closes by activities in larger fibers of by information.  
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Taste consist of   sweet, sour, bitter, salty, umami  
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Taste Buds   chemical sense, age and taste  
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Evolutionary Psychologist would say that   pleasurable tastes attached to protein rich foods that allowed survival  
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Gustatury   relates to taste  
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Olfaction bulb   relates to smell  
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Smell   a chemical sense with 5 million receptorys  
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Kinesthesia   sensing body position and movement of individual body parts, transduction  
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Vestibular Sense   sense of body movement, blance and acceleration  
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Semicurcular Canals   gravity, transduction  
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Smell enchanes   taste  
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McGurk Affect   what we see overrides what we hear  
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Synesthesia   one sense produces another  
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