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senstaion, perception

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Bottom Up Processing   sensory organs, five senses, detects change in environment  
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Top Down Processing   touch something, neurons go to brain and figure out what it is  
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Psychophysics   starts with complex, must have prior experience  
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Absolute Threshold   minimum amount you can detect with five senses  
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Difference Threshold/Just Noticeable Difference (JND)   minimum levels of change you detect  
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Weber’s Law   when change different threshold, so does JND  
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Signal Detection Theory   why someone will get it one time but not the next  
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Hit   something was there and you heard it  
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Miss   something was there but you didn’t hear it  
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Correct Rejection   nothing was there and you didn’t hear anything  
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False Alarm   thought something was there but you didn’t hear it  
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Qualities of Signal, Person Detecting, Background   volume of a signal, waiting for it, environment  
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Subliminal Stimulation   not much effect, any stimulation you detect less than 50% of the time,  
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Attention   direct your focus onto something else  
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Selective Attention   specifically focusing on one item  
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Inattentional Blindness   focusing on one item so much that you become blind to the other things around you  
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Transduction   every sense translates to brain so it can understand the process, change environmental stimulus into chemical impulses so the brain understands it  
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Seeing/Vision   inform of light waves, go to eyes  
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Cornea   outer layer of the eye, protects the eye, bends light toward the central focal point  
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Pupil   hole in the iris, size depends on light, controlled by iris  
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Iris   colored part of eye, controls pupil  
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Lens   behind pupil, bend light and focus it to retina, thickness depends on how much light will be bent  
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Accommodation   process of bending light to focus on retina  
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Retina   whole back part of the eye  
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Photoreceptors   specifically deals with light, not present in the optic nerve  
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Rods   120 million, edge of the retina, sensitive when dark, deals with light, named for shape, detects movement, lower absolute threshold for shades of grey, central vision, black and white  
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Cones   6 million, light, detect color, focus on details, in center of the eye in fovea  
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Bipolar Cells   middle layer of the retina, gather information from rods and cones and pass it to the ganglion cells  
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Ganglion Cells   all come together to form the optic nerve, lead to brain, top layer of the retina, receive info from bipolar cells and transmit it through axons  
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Fovea   central focal point of the retina, where vision is best  
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Optic Nerve   carries visual information from the eye to occipital lobe  
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Blind Spot   where the eye can’t see, when vision goes right to the optic nerve, no rods or cones  
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Optic Chiasm   information gets together and is separated into left and right visual cortex  
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Feature Detectors   only respond to certain features of an image  
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Parallel Processing   eye sends info to brain, brain processes it all at the same time  
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Visual Acuity   how good vision is  
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Nearsightedness (Myopia)   see close up but not far away, image focuses before retina  
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Farsightedness (Hyperopia)   see far away but not close up, focus image after retina  
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Electromagnetic Spectrum & Visible Light   ROYGBIV, red is low frequency and long wavelength, violet is high frequency and short wavelength  
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Hue/Color   determined by frequency, different colors  
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Amplitude   tip to tip of wavelength  
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Brightness   determined by amplitude  
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Saturation   non saturated: white, saturated: color  
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Additive Color Mixing   each wavelength adds new colors  
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Subtractive Color Mixing   each pigment absorbs different wavelengths of light thus admitting the color we see  
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Trichromatic Theory of Light (Young   Helmholtz Theory)  
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Hermann von Helmholtz   introduced the trichromatic theory  
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Opponent Process Theory   each color has an opposite color, light that stimulates one half of the pair of colors inhibits the other half  
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Ewald Hering   proposed the opponent process theory  
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Afterimage   after looking and one color for a while, you inhibit those neurons, thus you see the opposite color because those neurons aren’t tired  
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Color Blindness   lack one of the three types of cones  
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Adaptation   eyes adapt to different light  
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Light Adaptation   pupils get smaller so less light gets in  
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Dark Adaptation   pupils get larger so more light gets in  
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Pinna   outer ear, captures the sound  
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Auditory Canal (Ear Canal)   outer ear, funnels sound to ear drum  
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Eardrum (Tympanic Membrane)   outer ear, turns sound wave into vibration  
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Middle Ear   amplify and intensifies sound  
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Ossicles   transfer sound waves from the eardrum to the cochlea, middle ear  
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Hammer   first ossicle  
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Anvil   second ossicle  
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Stirrup   third ossicle  
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Oval Window   sound travels through to get to inner ear,  
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Cochlea   looks like a snail, fluid filled, sound waves change into neural impulses  
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Basilar Membrane   cilia attached to hair cells that send auditory nerve  
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Auditory Nerve   sends information to temporal and auditory cortex  
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Amplitude   more: higher volume, lower: lower volume  
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Loudness (measured in Decibels)   height or amplitude of the sound wave  
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Pitch   frequency, determined by length of a wave  
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Hertz (Hz)   the number of wavelengths that reach your ear per second, pitch  
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Timbre   how different things make different sounds  
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Place Theory   pitch depends on where it is processed in the cochlea, low frequencies: tip of the cochlea, high frequencies: near oval window,  
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Frequency Theory   how many frequencies are sent to the brain, high: more, low: less  
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Volley Principle   cilia take turns sending nerve impulses to brain  
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Sound Localization   where sound comes from  
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Conductive Hearing Loss   outer or middle ear, cannot conduct sound to sent to inner ear, hearing aid  
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Sensorineural Hearing Loss   problem with the sensory nerve cells or nerves that go to the brain  
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Chemical Senses   taste and smell, receptor cells that respond to chemical structures  
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Papillae   hold taste buds, activated by taste  
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Taste Buds   taste receptors in papillae  
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Tastes   Sweet, Sour, Bitter, Salty, Umami  
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Pheromones   different chemicals released by different species, change other members of the same species  
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Skin Sense   Warmth, Cold, Pressure, Pain  
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Gate Control Theory   receptors must send information through brain to be processed, spinal cord may choose to open up so info can go to brain, or it will close so message doesn’t get to brain  
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Biopsychosocial Theory   biological: body detects pain, sends messages to brain, psychological: expect something to hurt so it does, social: is it acceptable to feel pain  
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Phantom Limb Syndrome   pain in limbs that you don’t have, feel like you have a limb but you don’t  
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Congenital Insensitivity to pain with Anhidrosis   people don’t have the ability to feel pain because they don’t have receptors, can’t feel temperature, can’t sweat  
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Proprioception/Kinesthetic Sense   ability to know where body parts are even if you can’t see them  
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Equilibrioception/Vestibular Sense   sense of balance, semicircular canals in ears, makes you aware of what your body does due to environment  
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Semicircular Canals   in ear canal, contains fluid, if fluid moves: you become dizzy and unbalanced  
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Sensory Adaptation   lose some senses because you adapt to it, used so you can focus on new things, not as much in eyes  
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Sensory Compensation   if you lose one sense, your other senses will pick up the slack  
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Sensory Interaction   senses work together to change or enhance senses  
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Perception   the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information  
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Figure Ground   organization of the visual field into objects/figures that stand out from their surroundings  
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Grouping (Gestalt Principles)   the whole is greater than the sum of its parts  
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Proximity   place objects close together in the same group  
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Similarity   place items that look similar in the same group  
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Continuity   once an object appears to move in a particular direction, our brain assumes the movement continues unchanged  
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Closure   fill in the gaps visually, we look for a whole, not parts  
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Common Region   share an area so they must go together  
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Connectedness   connected with a line  
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Depth Perception   the ability to see in three dimensions and judge distance  
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Monocular Cues   requires use of only one eye, depth perception at long distances  
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Interposition   close object blocks the view of distant objects  
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Relative Height   distant objects look higher in the field of vision, close objects look lower in the field of vision  
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Texture Gradient   objects at a distance look like they have a smooth texture  
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Linear Perspective   objects seem to come closer together as they are more distant  
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Clarity   distant objects are less clear than close objects  
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Relative Size   if an object appears to be large: its probably close, if an object appears to me small: its probably far away  
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Motion Parallax   something in motion up close appears to move very fast, something in motion faraway appears to move very slow  
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Binocular Cues   requires use of both eyes, depth perception at a short distance  
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Convergence   translates tension in the muscle that controls your eyeballs into information about distance, predicts depth most effectively at short distances  
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Retinal Disparity   the difference between images you see with the retinas in your left and right eye  
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Stroboscopic Motion   pictures rapidly projected to create a picture of movement  
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Phi Phenomenon   an illusion of movement created when lights are turned on and off  
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Visual Dominance   vision seems to dominate other senses with perception, rely on vision the most  
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Perceptual Constancy   perceiving the size, shape, and lightness of an object as unchanging, even as the retinal image of the object changes  
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Size Constancy   the size of an object remains the same as it comes closer or goes farther away, even though it appears to change  
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Shape Constancy   an objects shape does not change, just the angle  
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Brightness Constancy   constant level of lightness of an object no matter how the lighting conditions change  
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Color Constancy   color does not change, even though light changes  
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