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Psych 1001 Chapter 4-6 Flashcards

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Types of Thresholds

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Absolute Threshold, Just Noticeable Difference

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Single-Detection Theory

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It’s a mixture of sensory processes and the decision processes.

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Subliminal perception

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Sensory input that falls beneath our conscious awareness. Possible but has weak/short lived effect on behavior.

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Sensory Adaptation

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Long term exposure that leads to a decline in sensitivity and no longer feel the effects.

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Three Properties of Light

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  1. Amplitude: Brightness
  2. Wavelength: Color
  3. Purity: Saturation
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Eye structures in the Retina

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  1. Retina: Absorbs light, processes images and sends information.
  2. Visual receptor cells / Rods - Black and white + Peripheral and Cones + color + center
  3. Optic Disk - Nerve leaves the eye.
  4. Fovea: Tiny Spot in the center of the retina containing only cones.
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Routing Signals

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Main Pathway: Lateral geniculate nucleus (Thamalus) - primary visual cortex

Second Pathway: Superor Colliculus - Thalamus - Primary visual cortex

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Two Types of Color Mixing

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  1. Additive

2. Subtractive

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Trichromatic Theory

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Receptors of red, green , blue and color mixing occurs via varied rations of neural activity.

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Evidence of Trichromatic Theory

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  1. Primary colors - Add colors together to see light
  2. Colour Blindness - Not seeing certain colors
  3. 3 types of cones - sensitive to each color
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Opponent process theory

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3 pairs of antagonist colors: red/green blue/yellow black/white

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Evidence of Opponent Process

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  1. Complementary colors: Colors that you combine them to make grey
  2. Afterimages: Colors that when stared at too long can be seen on other surfaces
  3. What about yellow? Is a necessary fourth color.
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Subjectivity Perception

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Involves interpretation of sensory input. We don’t always pay attention to all sensory input.

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Inattentional Blindness

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A failure to see a change in what we are looking at. Failing to see something obvious.

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Feature Analysis

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Specific elements and assembling them into complex forms. (Bigger picture to smaller picture)

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Bottom-Up Processing

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Progression from individual elements to the whole picture. (Smaller to bigger)

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Gestalt Principles

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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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Distal Stimuli

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Stimuli outside of the body (looking from a distance)

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Proximal Stimuli

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Stimuli energies impinging on sensory receptors. (the way we perceive it from the way we see it)

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Perceptual Hypotheses

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Difference about which distal stimuli create the proximal stimuli we sense.

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Perceptual Consistencies

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Stable perception amid changing stimuli, we continue to see the object the same though the stimuli changes the look.

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Optical Illusion

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Difference between the visual appearance and physical reality.

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Three Properties of sound

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  1. Amplitude = Loudness / pressure
  2. Wavelength = Pitch / frequency
  3. Purity = Timbre/ Based on a single frequency vibration
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External Ear

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Pinna collect sound like a funnel. Send it to the ear drum causing vibration in the ear.

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Middle Ear
The ossicles (hammer, anvil and stirrup) amplifying change in air pressure and vibrates oval window.
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Inner Ear
Sound enters the oval window, into the fluid-filled cochlea contains auditory receptors (hair cells.) lined in the Basilar membrane.
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Theories of Hearing
Place Theory: Different pitches correspond with vibrations on different places on the basilar membrane. Frequency Theory: The brain detects the frequency of a tone by the rate at which the entire membrane vibrates.
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Auditory Localization
Intensity of the noise and the time it takes to hit both ears.
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Taste Receptors
Taste is done through soluble chemical substances that are absorbed through the taste buds. (each taste has its own receptors.)
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Taste Receptor Pathway
Taste buds > Neural impulse > Thalamus > Cortex frontal lobe
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Smell Receptors
Soluble chemicals substances in the air that dissolve in the mucus, through the noise hairs (olfactory cilia) stimulating them.
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Smell Pathway
Olfactory cilia > neural impulse > olfactory bulb olfactory cortex (temporal lobe.)
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Human Olfactory capabilities
- Hard to classify - Ability to distinguish odors is good - Ability to name odors is poor
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Touch Stimuli
Mechanical, thermal and chemical energy impinging on the skin
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Touch Receptors
Temperature, pressure and pain
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Touch Pathway
Sensory receptors > spinal column > brainstem > cross to opposite side of the brain > thalamus > parietal lobe
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Two pain pathways:
1. Fast: Quick pain felt in a split second, via myelinated a delta fibers. 2. Slow: Slower less localized pain aching via unmyelinated c fibers. Longer lasting
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Gate Control Theory
Pain signals can be blocked by "gate" in spinal cord. Doing a different action can stop pain from being felt.
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Kinesthetic
Knowing the position of the body parts. Joints bending and muscles flexing.
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Vestibular Systems
Responsible for equilibrium and movement space.
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Two Types of Vestibular Organs
Otolith organs: Tiny sac containing crystals. When the sac vibrates it tells the crystals about movement. Semicircular canals: Three fluid-filled canals containing hair cells.
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Consciousness
Awareness of internal and external stimuli. A sense of the world and of ourselves.
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Waking Consciousness
State which one is alert, thoughts, feelings and sensations are clear and organized.
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Altered States of consciousness
Where there is a diminished quality or pattern of mental activity. Feeling fuzzy or unfocused. (hypnosis, drug use and daydreaming.)
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Brain Activity
EEG: Monitoring brain electrical activity shows that consciousness is spread through out the brain. Brain waves, amplitude heights and frequency cycles per second.
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EEG Patterns Alertness:
Beta: 13-24 normal waking thought Alpha 8-12 deep relaxation, meditation Theta 4-7 light sleep Delta less than 4 deep sleep
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Circadian Rhythms
24h biological clock. Regulates sleep and other functions. Light plays a role.
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Pathway of sleep
Light > retina > suprachiasmatic hypothalamus > pineal gland > secretion of melatonin
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Stage 1 (sleep cycle.)
Alpha waves > Theta waves (1-7min) hypnic jerks light, noise, time you slept and ate. Breathing, heart rate slows down.
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Stage 2 (Sleep cycle)
10-25 minutes sleep spindles | -Brief burst of brain waves
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Stage 3 & 4 (sleep)
Slow-wave (delta 30min)20-50% or less stage 3 | 50% + stage 4
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Stage 5 (sleep)
REM: like being awake, vivid dreaming. each cycles gets longer.
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Complete Sleep Deprivation
3 or 4 days before body crashes and forces to sleep.
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Partial Deprivation
Impaired attention, reaction time, reduced attention.
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Sleep Loss
Attention, reaction time, motor coordination, memory etc..
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Dreams Theories
1. (Freud) Dream as a wish fulfillment. Satisfy unconscious needs in a disguised fashion. (latent content) 2. The problem-solving view (Cartwright.) review problems with a reduce logical constraints. 3. Activation-Synthesis model - Cortex constructs a story to make sense of internal signals from lower brain centers.
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Effect of Hypnosis
1. Anesthesia 2. Sensory Distortions 3. Disinhibition 4. Amnesia
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Types of Drugs
1. Narcotics -pain relief 2. Sedatives - sleep inducing 3. Stimulant - Increase activity 4. Hallucinogens : Distort sensory and perceptual experience. 5. Cannabis - produces mild, relaxed euphoria. 6. Alcohol - Produces relaxed euphoria and decreases inhibitions
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Physical Dependence
When a person must continue taking drugs to avoid withdrawal as their body needs it to function.
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Psychological dependence
When a person thinks they need a drug to function and what an emotional/mental craving for it.
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Evaluative Conditioning
Neutral UCS can evoke an emotional / attitudes reaction if paired with a positive or negative stimuli (CS)

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