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CH4 Sensation and Perception. Psychology

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Sensation   Stimulation of sense organs  
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Perception   Selection , organization, and interpretation of sensory input  
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Psychophysics   the study of how physical stimuli are translated into psychological experience  
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Fechner   The concept of the threshold  
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Absolute threshold   detected @ 50% of the time  
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Just noticeable difference (JND)   Smallest difference detectable  
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weber's law   size of JND proportional to size of initial stimulus  
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Signal-Detection Theory   Sensory processes and decision processes  
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Subliminal Perception   Existence vs. practical effects  
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Sensory Adaptation   Decline in Sensitivity  
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Light   electromagnetic radiation  
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amplitude   perception of brightness  
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wavelength   perception of color  
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purity   mix of wavelengths -- perception of saturation  
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saturation   richness of colors  
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Cornea   where light enters the eye  
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Lens   Focuses the light rays on the retina  
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Iris   colored ring of muscle , constricts or dilates via amount of light  
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Pupil   regulates amount of light  
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Retina   absorbs light, processes images  
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Optic Disk   Optic nerve connection/blind spot  
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Receptor cells /Rods   Black & white /low light vision  
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Receptor cells/ Cones   color and daylight vision  
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adaptation   becoming more or less sensitive to light as needed  
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Information processing/ Receptive fields & lateral antagonism    
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Wavelength   determines color longer = red // shorter= violet  
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Amplitude   determines brightness  
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purity   determines saturation  
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Trichromatic theory   Young and Helmoltz , receptors for red, green, blue -- color mixing  
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Opponent Process History   Hering, 3 pars of antagonistic colors: red/green, blue/yellow, black/white  
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Current perspective of Trichromatic & Opponent process theory   both theories are necessary  
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Perceptual Sets   Motivational forces can foster perceptual sets  
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features detection theory   bottom-up processing  
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Form perception   top-down processing  
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Gestalt psychologists   the whole is more than the sum of its parts Reversible figures and perceptual sets demo that same visual stimulus can result in very different perceptions  
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Gestalt principles of form perception:   figure ground, proximity, similarity, continuity, closure and simplicity  
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Optical Illusions   discrepancy between visual appearances and physical reality  
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