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7 steps of the perceptual process

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  1. Distal Stimulus
  2. Creation of proximal stimulus
  3. Receptor processes
  4. Neural Processing
  5. Perception
  6. Recognition
  7. Action
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Principle of transformation

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Stimuli are transformed between environment and perception

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Principle of representation

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Perception is based on representations of stimuli

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Transduction

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Transformation of environmental energy into electrical energy

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Top-down processing

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processing that starts with the analyzing of high-level information, such as the knowledge a person brings to the situation

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Bottom-up processing

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processing that is based on information from receptors

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Oblique effect

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The eye is better at detecting vertical and horizontal lines rather then oblique and diagonal lines

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Psychophysics

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Determining how a person’s psychological perception s related to physical stimuli in the environment

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Method of limits

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experimenter presents multiple sequences of stimuli in ascending and descending order to gauge perception

ex. eye test

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Method of adjustment

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participant adjusts the stimuli continuously until they can barely detect the stimulus

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Method of constant stimuli

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experimenter presents five to nine stimuli with different intensities in random order

more accurate but slower

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Absolute threshold

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minimum stimulus energy needed for an observer to detect the stimulus

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Difference threshold

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minimum detectable difference between two stimuli

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Magnitude estimation

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participant assigns numbers to stimuli that are proportional to the subjective magnitude of the stimulus

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Resting potential

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-70 mV

sodium outside, potassium inside

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Threshold of excitation

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-55 mV

sodium channels open
depolarization begins

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Depolarization (rising phase)

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Sodium rushes into the neuron
charge inside rises to +40 mV

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Repolarization (falling phase)

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Sodium channels close, potassium channels open

charge inside decreases

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Hyperpolarization

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Charge inside neuron decreases to -75 mV

sodium-potassium pump restores balance

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Changing intensity of stimulus affects? (rate or size of reaction?)

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rate/ frequency of firing

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Absolute refractory period

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impossible for the neuron to fire

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Relative refractory period

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harder for the neuron to fire

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When action potentials reach the end of the axon, they release of…?

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neurotransmitters

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light passes through the ____ and is focused

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cornea

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light passes through the pupil and is focused again by the lens to form image on the ___
retina
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The retina contains these receptors:
rods and cones
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Optic nerve
signals flow through the retina to the optic nerve to be conducted in the brain
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Accommodation
Lens changes shape to bend light
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Cornea vs. Lens
Cornea- rigid, 80% of focus Lens- flexible, 20% of focus
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Presbyopia
"old eye" Inability of eye to accommodate due to hardening of lens and weakening of ciliary muscles
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Myopia
Nearsightedness inability to see distant objects clearly
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Hyperopia
Farsightedness inability to see near objects clearly
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Where are light-sensitive visual pigments found?
outer segments of the rods and cones
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What are the two parts of visual pigments?
Ospin and retinal
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Isomerization
When the visual pigment molecule absorbs light, retinal changes from bent to straight
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How are rods and cones distributed in the fovea?
Only cones
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How are rods and cones distributed in the peripheral retina
more rods than cones
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Macular degeneration
destroys fovea and surrounding area
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retinitis pigmentosa
degeneration of retina that first attacks peripheral rod receptors
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Blind spot
area with no rods or cones where the optic nerve is
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Dark adaptation
process in which our eyes become gradually more sensitive to light in a dark environment
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Rod-cone break
Point where rods become more sensitive to cones cones reach their maximum sensitivity before rods
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visual pigment regeneration
leads to increased sensitivity retinal eventually breaks off from ospin after changing shape, this bleaches the pigment and makes it no longer useful - retinal must reattach and return to bent shape cones regenerate more quickly than rods
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which photoreceptor is responsible for night vision?
rods
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spectral sensitivity
sensitivity to different wavelengths/ different parts of the visual spectrum rods more sensitive to short wavelengths (blues and greens) cones more sensitive to longer wavelengths (yellows and reds)
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Purkinje shift
at low illumination levels, sensitivity of the eye moves toward shorter wavelengths and blues reds appear darker
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Cones (three types, three one pigments, three spectral sensitivities)
Short, medium, and long
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5 layers of neurons in the retina
1. Rod and cone receptors 2. Horizontal cells 3. Bipolar cells 4. Amacrine cells 5. Ganglion cells
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Convergence
when many neurons synapse onto one neuron
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Which converges more (rods or cones?)
rods many foveal cones have "private lines to ganglion cells
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Which photoreceptor has better sensitivity
rods (due to convergence)
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visual acuity
ability to see details highest in the fovea
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which photoreceptor has better visual acuity
cones (due to less convergence)
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What is the optic nerve made up of
axons of the retinal ganglion cells
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receptive field
region of the retina that must receive illumination in order to obtain a response from any given fiber receptive fields overlap
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center-surround receptive fields
have an excitatory area and an inhibitory area arrange concentrically, in circles contributes to edge enhancement
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Lateral inhibition
inhibitory signals that travel across the retina
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chevreul illusion
in one patch of color, one side when compared to two different colors seems darker even though it is all the same shade
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Visual pathway
1. retina 2. optic nerve 3. optic chiasm 4. Lateral geniculate nucleus in the thalamus 5. primary receiving area in the occipital lobe (striate cortex/v1)
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How does the LGN regulate information flow
signal from LGN - cortex is smaller than retina - LGN LGN also receives signals from cortex so feedback could be involved
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Simple cortical cells
excitatory and inhibitory areas are arranged side by side
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complex cells
respond best to moving bars of a particular orientation
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End-stopped (hypercomplex) cells
fire to moving lines of a specific length or o moving corners or angles
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Feature detector
neuron that responds selectively to a specific feature or stimulus
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Selective adaptation
when an organism is selectively exposed to one stimulus, resulting in decreased sensitivity to that stimulus neurons that were firing eventually become fatigued- their firing rate decreases, fire less when the stimulus is immediately presented again
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Selective rearing
animals are reared in a special environment containing only certain types of stimuli, resulting in more neurons that respond to those stimuli more long term than selective adaptation
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retinotopic organization
organization of v1 location on the cortex correspond to locations on the retina
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cortical magnification
when a disproportionately large area in the cortex is activated by stimulation of a small area on the receptor surface points in the fovea get more representation in the cortex than points in the periphery
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extrastriate cortex
made up of areas in the occipital lobe outside of v1 receptive fields get larger more complex processing
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Ventral pathway
object discrimination "What" pathway
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Dorsal pathway
How or action pathway
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inferotemporal cortex
responsible for the perception of complex objects
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Double dissociation
Damage to area A in the brain causes function A to be absent while function B is present and vice versa
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Fusiform face area (FFA)
part of the inferotemporal cortex with many neurons that respond to faces
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Inverse projection problem
challenge of determining the objects and properties in the environment that produced a particular sensory input The same image on the retina could be produced by a number of different stimuli viewed from different distances or vantage points
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Problems in perception
1. stimulus in the receptors is ambiguous 2. objects can be hidden or blurred 3. Objects look different from different viewpoints
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occlusion
when one object is partially hidden by another object
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viewpoint invariance
ability to recognize an object seen from different viewpoints
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Perceptual organization
process by which elements in the environment become perceptually grouped to create our perception of objects
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Gestalt approach
emphasizes that the whole is different from the sum of its parts
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Apparent movement
illusion of movement that occurs when objects separated in space are presented rapidly, one after another, separated by a brief time interval ex. stock signs
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Gestalt organizing principles
rules that determine how elements in a scene become grouped together 1. Good continuation 2. Pragnanz 3. similarity 4. proximity 5. Common fate 6. Common region 7. Uniform connectedness
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Good continuation
Lines are seen as straight or smoothly curving
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Pragnanz
stimuli are seen in such a way that the resulting structure is as simple as possible
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Similarity
Similar elements appear to be grouped together
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Proximity
Elements near each other appear to be grouped together
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Common fate
elements moving in the same direction appear to be grouped together
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Common region
Elements within the same region of space appear to be grouped together
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Uniform connectedness
Connected regions of a visual stimulus are grouped together
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Figure-ground segregation
perceptual segregation of an object from its background
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Border ownership
Figure-ground border appears to belong to the figure
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Areas lower in the field of view are more likely to be perceived as the? (Figure or ground)?
Figure
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Areas on the convex side of borders are more likely to be perceived as the? (Figure or ground)?
Figure
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Physical regularities
regularly occurring physical properties of the environment
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semantic regularities
characteristics associated with the functions carried out in different types of scenes

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