Mod 20

Question 1

What does sensation mean?

Answer 1

the process of sensory organs converting physical stimuli into neurological impulses that the brain interprets as the five senses

Question 2

What are sensory receptors?

Answer 2

Sensory nerve endings that respond to stimuli.

Question 3

What is perception?

Answer 3

The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events.

Question 4

What’s the difference between bottom up and top down processing?

Answer 4

Bottom up processing is purely sensational because it starts at our sensory receptors. Top down processing is based off our experiences and expectations.

Question 5

What is selective attention?

Answer 5

When we focus on our conscious awareness on a particular stimuli.

Question 6

What is the cocktail party effect?

Answer 6

The ability to focus our attention on one voice at a party, among the many people who are attending.

Question 7

What is the specific word(s) for the opposite of selective attention?

Answer 7

1) Inattentional Blindness
2) Change Blindness ( a form of inattentional blindness)

Question 8

What is inattentional blindness?

Answer 8

Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.

Question 9

What is an example of inattentional blindness?

Answer 9

A magic trick

Question 10

What is change blindness?

Answer 10

Failing to notice a change in the environment

Question 11

What is an example of change blindness?

Answer 11

Switching out people during a conversation.

Question 12

What is transduction?

Answer 12

Conversion of 1 form of energy into another. (Includes our senses turning into neural impulses for our brain)

Question 13

What is psychophysics?

Answer 13

The study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity, and our psychological experience of them.

Question 14

What are the 2 threshold?

Answer 14

Absolute and Difference thresholds

Question 15

What is the difference between the 2 thresholds?

Answer 15

Absolute is the minimum stimulus energy needed to detect a particular stimulus (keyword) 50% of the time.
Difference is the minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection (keyword) 50% of the time.

Question 16

What is the signal detection theory and which threshold does it apply to?

Answer 16

It predicts how and when we detect the faint presence of a faint signal amid background noise, so it changes constantly.
It applies to the absolute threshold.

Question 17

What is it called when there’s stimuli you cannot detect 50% of the time?

Answer 17

Subliminal

Question 18

Who started webers law and what is it?

Answer 18

Ernst Weber; For us to perceive a difference, 2 stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage. Ex) 2 lights must differ in intensity by 8 percent

Question 19

What is sensory adaptation?

Answer 19

Diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation. (Lowk like neuroadaptation)

Question 20

What is priming?

Answer 20

exposure to one stimulus influences how a person responds

Question 21

Why can we recognize faces?

Answer 21

Top down processing

Question 22

Why can we focus on on one person in the midst of a loud baseball game?

Answer 22

The cocktail party effect

Question 23

How can we convert light waves into signals to understand our psychology book?

Answer 23

Transduction

Question 24

How do we notice the difference in hot water when washing our hands?

Answer 24

Difference threshold

Question 25

How does our body become accustomed to the cold water in the pool?

Answer 25

Sensory adaptation