physical

Question 1

sensation

Answer 1

your body taking in raw info from the outside world

Question 2

bottom up processing

Answer 2

how sensory system bring in raw info to be processed by our brain forming phycological experience of outside world

Question 3

psychophysics

Answer 3

study of how physical stimuli are translated into a psychological experience

Question 4

two central figures in psychophysics

Answer 4

webber & Fechner

Question 5

Absolute threshold

Answer 5

smallest amount of sense that you need to detect it
high AT=needs more energy to detect

Question 6

difference threshold

Answer 6

smallest amount of energy CHANGE you need to detect
high DT= need more energy to notice

Question 7

weber’s law

Answer 7

as the intensity of a stimulus increases, so does it’s JND, proportionally

Question 8

signal detection theory

Answer 8

past
expectations
motivation
level of fatigue

Question 9

sensory adaptation

Answer 9

get used to a stimulus that you stop noticing it

Question 10

transduction

Answer 10

your brain taking information and changing it into a signal you can read

Question 11

wavelength

Answer 11

horizontal distance from one peak to the next
determines pitch

Question 12

frequency

Answer 12

number of waves that pass a point in space during any time interval
determines pitch

Question 13

amplitude

Answer 13

vertical height of the wave from top to bottom
determines volume

Question 14

saturation

Answer 14

colorfulness of a hue

Question 15

timbre

Answer 15

ability to detect different sources of sounds sharing similar pitch and amplitude

Question 16

vision

Answer 16

interpretation of sight
photoreceptors
retina

Question 17

audition

Answer 17

interpretation of sound
mechanoceptors
cochlea

Question 18

olfaction

Answer 18

smell
olfactory bulb

Question 19

gustatory

Answer 19

taste
frontal & parietal lobes

Question 20

sensory interaction

Answer 20

when two senses happen and it influences persception

Question 21

papillae

Answer 21

bumps on tongue perceives texture and taste

Question 22

sweet

Answer 22

energy

Question 23

salty

Answer 23

sodium

Question 24

bitter

Answer 24

not ripe

Question 25

sour

Answer 25

overripe

Question 26

umami

Answer 26

flavor of meat and protein

Question 27

tactile

Answer 27

touch mechanoceptors all over skin somatosensory cortex

Question 28

tactile

Answer 28

touch mechanoceptors all over skin somatosensory cortexpain

Question 29

pain

Answer 29

nociceptors all over skin somatosensory cortex

Question 30

kinesthesis

Answer 30

knowing where limbs are without looking proprioceptors joints, tendons, ligaments cerebellum

Question 31

vestibular

Answer 31

balance semicircular canals cerebellum