XXX PSYCHOLOGY: Chapter 2 Sensation and Perception

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Transduction

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Transforming signals into neural impulses

Senses > Thalamus > areas of the Brain

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Sensation: your window to the world

Perception

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Definitions

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Neural Impulses

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The interaction of multiple areas of the brain influences behavior

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Sensory Adaptation

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decreased responsiveness to stimuli due to constant stimulations

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STIMULI

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RESPOSIVENESS

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Cocktail-party phenomenon

cocktail-party effect

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Form of selective attention

ability to focus one’s listening attn on a single talker…

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Energy vs. Chemical Senses

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Chemical (external)

Energy (what you expend externally)

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*VISION (on mid term - 1/4-1/2 or questions!)

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Our most dominating sense

VISUAL CAPTURE

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Determining behavior bases on what one sees

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Visual Capture

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Vision (frequency)

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short wavelength

long wavelength

height - brightness
length - color
ROY G BIV
length - violet > red

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Phase 2: Light in the Eye

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Familiarity with aspects of the Eye
Prism Effect

vision sense-wise and reflex-wise & how effects behavior

*Know rods & cones

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Phase 4: In the Brain (on mid term)

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• Visual cortex in Occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex
• Feature Detectors (shape)
• Parallel Processing

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Color Vision (on mid term)

?TD 2 example

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2 major theories

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Trichromatic Theory

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3 structures/cones:
red, blue, green

• makes many combinations of colors
• does not explain afterimages or colorblindness

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Opponent-Process Theory

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Sensory receptors come in pairs:
red/green
yellow/blue

-if one color is stimulated, one is inhibited

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Afterimages

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Hearing: Auditory Sense

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*wavelength & frequency and how it relates to vibration

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The Ear

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1.5x the anatomy of vision

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The Ear

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eardrum > anvil > hammer > stirrup

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Pitch Theories

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Place Theory

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different hairs in cochlea vibrate with different pitches (high & low)

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*Pitch (on mid term)

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Frequency Theory

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All hairs vibrate at different speeds

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Deafness

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Differences on midterm:
(processing vs neurological)
-Conduction Deafness

-Nerve (sensorineural) Deafness

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Touch

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Receptors in skin

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Gate Control Theory of Pain (on midterm)

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• Threshold - everyone has a different pain tolerance

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Taste

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Taste buds are in the Papillae

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Vestibular Sense

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tells us where our body is oriented in space

our sense of balance (equilibrium)

located in our semicircular canals in our ears

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Kinesthetic Sense

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Tells us where our body parts are

receptors located in our muscles and joints