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Sensation Flashcards

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Distal Stimlulus

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An object or even in the outside world

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Proximal Stimulus

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The energies from the outside world that directly reach our sense organs.

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Psychophysics

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an approach to perception that relates the characteristics of physical stimuli to the sensory experiences they produce.

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Absolute threshold

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The smallest quantity of a stimulus that an individual can detect at least 50% of the time.

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Difference threshold

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The smallest amount that a given stimulus must be increased or decreased so that individual can detect the difference.

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Just-noticeable difference(jnd)

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The smallest difference that an organism can reliably detect between two stimuli.

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Weber’s Law

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The observation that the size of the difference threshold is proportional to the intensity of the standard stimulus.

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Can we compare JND directly across modalities?

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No, but with Weber’s law we can.

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What is the ranking of the Senses in terms of Weber Fraction

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  1. Vision (most sensitive
  2. kinesthesia
  3. Pain (thermal skin)
  4. Hearing
  5. Touch
  6. Smell
  7. Taste
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Perceptual sensitivity is

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An organisms ability to detect a signal

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Decision criteria are?

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An organism’s rule for how much evidence it needs before responding.

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What is signal detection theory?

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The theory that perceiving ior not perceiving a stimulus is actually a judgment about whether a momentary sensory experience is due to background noise alone or to the background noise plus a signal.

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What is a hit:

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Signal is present and the person records a yes

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What is a miss?

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Person gives no signal, but signal is present.

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What is a false alarm

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Person says yes, but no signal is present

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What is a correct negative.

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Saying no, when their is no signal response

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What is the payoff matrix

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The pattern of benefits and costs associated with certain types of responses.

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What have people used signal detection theory for?

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Memory effects of hypnosis, decisions made by college admissions, medical diagnosis.

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Why is signal detection theory important?

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Because we often make decisions with imperfect information.

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Sensory coding is

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The process through which the nervous system represents the qualities of the incoming stimulus–whether auditory or visual, for example or whether a red light or a green light or a sweet tasted.

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What is transduction?

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The process through which a physical stimulus is converted int a signal within the nervous system.

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Ringing in the ears in the absence of environmental sound is an example of what?

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Stimulation of the auditory nerve secondary to a lack of sound vibrations, or at least the pattern of sound waves differeing.

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What is specificity theory

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The proposal that different sensory qualities are signaled by different quality–specific neurons. (the theory is only true in a few cases). Origins: Descartes

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Pattern theory

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The proposal that different sensory qualities are encoded by specific patterns of firing among the relevant neurons.

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Sensory adaptation

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The process by which the sensitivity to a stimulus declines if the stimulus is presented for an extended period of time.

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Kinesthesis

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Sensations generated by receptors in the muscles, tendons, bones and joints.

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The sensations generated by receptors in the semicircular canals of the inner ear that inform us about the head’s orientation and movements.

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The vestibular sense

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Why do we spin due to alcohol

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Because diffuses into the semicircular canals and effects the density and viscosity of the fluid.

29
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Nociceptors are:

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A delta fibers
C fibers (dull ache, unmyelinated)
30
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Emotion and Pain can be teased apart true or false

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true.

31
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Pain involves more of…

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the somatosensory cortex

32
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Emotion involves…

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the anterior cingulate cortex

33
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Olfactory epithelium

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Is a mucous membrane at the top of the nasal cavity; cntains the olfactory recptor neurons that respond to airborne molecules called odorants.

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Glomeruli are

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Sites in the brain’s olfactor bulb where signals from smell reception converge.

35
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How many different types of receptors are there in the nose?

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About 1000

36
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How many different odors can we detect?

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10,0000

37
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Does smell rely on one glomulus per scent coding?

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No. Smells produce a unique pattern of activation in the glomeruli

38
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It is often the case without smell we cannot taste the difference between, onion, chocolate, garlic, coffee etc

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True

39
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What are pheromones?

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Biologically produced odorants that convey information to other members of the species

40
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Are phermones significant for humans?

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Much debate, infants can tell the smell of there mother at one week. Some aspects of human reproductive behavior are influenced by scent. i.e. menstrual synchrony.

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Papillae are..

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The structures on the tonge that contain the taste buds, which in turn contain taste receptors.

42
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How many taste buds are on each papilla

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Hundreds.

43
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Old vs young in # of taste receptors

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A young child may have twice as many taste receptors.

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What are the five tastes?

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Sweet, sourt, salty, bitter, umami

45
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Does each receptor respond to at least some degree to all tastants?

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Yes, the ones the respond to the most are the preferential flavors.

46
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Is it possible to experience sweet without triggering ostensibly sweet taste buds.

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Yes.

47
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What is conditioned taste aversion?

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Is when an organism due to a specific experience comes to associate a particular taste with illness–and then find the flavor repulsive.

48
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What are supertasters and how are they identified?

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People that have a strong ability to taste and thus are overwhelmed by very strong tastes. They are tested by putting a chemical compound called Propylthiuracil (PROP) on the tounge. Normal people do not respond. Strong tasters can.

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Sound waves are

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Pressure varriations in the air that vary in amplitude and wavelength.

50
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Amplitude is

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The height of a wave crest, used (in the case of sound waves) as a measure of sound intensity.

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Frequency is

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The number of wave peaks per second. In sound, frequency governs the perceived pitch of the sound.

52
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Amplitude and frequency respond to what dimensions of human subjective experince?

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Loudness and pitch

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