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Stimulation of sensory receptors and the transmission of sensory information to the central nervous system

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Sensation

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-not mechanical
-nothing similar only in organized and interpreted form
-An active provess in which sensation are organized and interpreted to form an inner representation of the world

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Perception

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-Can create perception and memory

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Childhood trauma

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-evolved, advance and most important sense

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Vision

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-more common to happen
-more dangerous cause theres a story

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Auditory hallucination

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-nose nerves
-near mid brain

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Ol factory

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-easily remembers and feel

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Nose or sense of Scent

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-taste nerves

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Gustatory

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Relationship between Sensation and perception

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-absolute threshold
-sublimal stimulation
-difference threshold
-signal-detection theory
-feature detectors
-sensory adaptation

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-a number
-weakest level of a stimulus that is necessary to produce a sensation
-smallest magnitude at which a sensory stimulus can reliably evoke a sensation

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Absolute threshold

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-sensory stimulation that is below a person’s absolute threshold for conscious perception

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Subliminal Stimulation

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-ex. dream
-A kind of stimulus where in it may be perceived and processed in the brain but does not elicit awareness of perception

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Sublimal Stimulation

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-Present stimulus but person wont be aware and change people’s desicion
-a phenomenon whereby exposure to one stimulus without conscious guidance or intention

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-Priming

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-ability to identify someone from a crowd
-enough signals to find object
-depends on: training, Psychological state and motivation

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Signal detection theory

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-state of your eyes when solving, anxious and alert

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Dilated eyes

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-When it gets higher youll miss the signals
-psychological

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Anxiety

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-physiological
-false alarm, fear that isn’t there
-capable of loosing conscious
-confuse internal in danger cues

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Panic Attack

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-signal detection theory gone wrong

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Panic attack

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-process by which we become more sensitive to stimuli after constant exposure to it

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Sensory Adaptation

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-when its dark but slowly you can see in it

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Light adaptation

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-minimum required difference between two stimuli for a person to notice change 50% of the time

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Difference threshold

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-The part of the electromagnetic spectrum that stimulates the eye and produces visual sensations

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Visible light

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-the process adjusting to high lighting

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Light adaptation

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-the process of adjusting to lower lighting

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Dark Adaptation

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-indicates that we can receive 3 types of colors (Red green blue) -cones vary the ratio of neural activity (like projection T. V)
Trichromatic theory
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Proposed the opponent process theory of color vision
Ewald Hering
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-claimed that there are three types of color receptors but only sensitive to red green and blue
Helmholtz
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-suggested after image are made possible by three types of color receptors: Red-Green, Blue-yellow and a type perceives differences in brightness
Hering
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-normal color vision
Trichromat
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-people who are totally color blind -sensitive only to lightness and darkness total color blindness is rare
Monochromats
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-sensitive to black-white and either red-green or blue-yellow and hence is partially color blind
Dichromat
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-mental representation of a stimulus that is perceived -pattern matching -representation of the object then pattern matching
Mental Precept
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-an image of a cow although most people are unable to see it at first glance
Dallenbach's cow
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-consistent and persistent discrepancies between a physical state of affairs and representation in consciousness
Perpetual illusion
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-approaches where perception starts with the stimuli whose appearance you take in through your eye
Bottom up theory
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-direct and indirect-computational
Perceptual theories
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-perception is driven by high-level cognitive processes existing knowledge and the prior expectations that influence perception -from view point expectations are important
Top-down theory
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-the influences of the surrounding environment on perception
Context effect
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-titchener circles -optic illusion of relative size perception
Ebbinghaus Illusion
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-German psychologist that discovered the illusion
Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Pattern or distinct structure found in an image such as a point edge or small image patch
Local Features
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-whole differs from the sum of its individual parts
Gestalt Psychology
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-we tend to perceive any given visual array in away that most simply organizes the different elements into a stable and coherent form -we tend to perceive a focal figure and other sensations as forming a background for the figure on which we focus
Pragnanz
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Figure is any object perceived as being highlighted
Figure-ground effect
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When we perceive an assortment of objects that are close to each other as a forming a group
Proximity
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Five of Gestalt principles
Proximity Similarity Continuity Closure Symmetry
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Two different pattern recognition systems
-Feature analysis system -configurational system
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-system specializes in recognition of parts of objects and in assembling those parts into distinctive wholes -recognizes parts
Feature analysis system
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-system that specializes in recognizing larger configurations. -It is not well equipped to analyze parts of objects or the construction of the objects -recognizes pattern
Configuration system
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Deficits in perception
-prosopagnosia -agnosia -simultagnosia -ataxia
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Unable to identify faces
Prosopagnosia
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Unable to recognize objects
Agnosia
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-unable to know objects ability
Ataxia
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-can't persive something -no problem with sensation -not caused by psychological stress, but accidents, strokes and other medical problems
Deficits in perception
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-process by which sensation are organized into an inner representation of the world
Perception
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The view that the perception of sensory stimuli involves the interaction of physical, biological, and psychological factors
Signal detection theory
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The fraction of the intensity by which a source of physical energy must be increased or decreased so that a difference in intensity will be perceived
Weber's constant
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Neurons in the sensory cortex that fire in response to specific features of sensory information such as line or edges of objects
Feature detectors
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-Type of sensory adaptation in which we become more sensitive to stimuli that are low in magnitude. -Called positive adaptation
Sensitization
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-Type of sensory adaptation in whicg we become more less sensitive to constant stimuli -Called negative adaptation
Desensitization
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The color of light as determined by its wavelength
Hue
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Transparent tissue forming the outer surface of the eyeball
Cornea
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A muscular membrane whose dilation regulates the amount of light that enters the eye
Iris
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Black looking opening in the center of the iris through which light enters the eyes
Pupils
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A transparent body behind the iris that focuses an image on the retina
Lens
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The area of the inner surface of the eye that contains rods and cones
Retina
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Cells that respond to light
Photoreceptors
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Neurons that conduct neural impulses from rids and cones to ganglion cells
Bipolar cells
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Neurons whose axons from optic nerve
Ganglion cells
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The nerves that transmit sensory information from the eyes to the brain
Optic nerves
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Photoreceptors that are sensitive only to the intensity of light
Rods
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Photoreceptors that transmit sensations of color
Cones
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An area near the centered of the retina that is dense with cones and where vision is consequently most acute
Fovea
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The area of the retina where axons from ganglion cells meet to form the optic nerve
Blind spot
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Sharpness of vision
Visual acuity
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A condition characterized by brittleness of the lens
Presbyopia
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The lingering visual impression made by a stimulus that has been removed
Afterimage
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The perpetual tendency to group together objects that are similar in appearance
Similarity
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Tendency to perceive a series of points or lines as having unity
Continuity
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The tendency to perceive elements that move together as belonging. Together
Common fate
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Sensation that give rise to misperceptions
Illusion
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Visual Acuity (Sharpness of vision)
Farsighted Near sightedness
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Connected with the shape of the eye
Visual Acuity
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Two Photoreceptors
Rods and Cones
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We tend to perpetually close up or complete objects that are not infact complete
Closure
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We tend to perceive objects as forming mirror images about their center
Symmetry
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Unable to see one object at a time
Simultagnosia
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located in sensory organs such as the eyes and ears, the skin and elsewhere in the body
Sensory receptors
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Automatic process
Stimulation of the senses
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results from sources of energy , like light and sound or from the presence of chemicals , as in smell and taste
Stimulation of senses
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active process which sensations are organized and interpreted to form an inner representation of the world ( Goldstein 2013 Hafemeister et al , 2010 .
Perception
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final product of sensation; conclusion
Perception
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minimum difference in stimuli that a person can detect
Just Noticeable Difference
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1/60th
Weber's constant of light
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relationship between a physical stimulus and a sensory response is not fully mechanical
Signal Detection Theory
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depends not only on the intensity of the blips but also on training, motivation, and psych states
Signal Detection theory
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White of the eye
Sclera
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Composed of Hard protective tissue
Sclera
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Colored part
Iris
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based on experiment by British scientist Thomas Young
Trichromatic theory
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Opponent-process theory of color vision
Ewald Hering
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looking at one color for a long period causes those receptor cells to become fatigued.  
Opponent process theory of color vision
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causes us to perceive a circle as larger when surrounded by smaller circles and smaller when surrounded by larger circles
Ebinghaus illusion
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apply only to humans and not other primates
Gestalt principles
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participants more quickly identify the local features of the individual letters than global ones
Global and Local Effect
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-perceive any given visual array in a way that most simply organizes the different elements into a stable and coherent form -means "Good figure" or "pithiness"
Pragnanz
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any object perceived as being highlighted ; almost always perceived against or in contrast to some kind of receding, unhighlighted (back) ground
Figure
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can see the face and recognize emotion, but cannot recognize whether the person is a stranger, friend, or own mother
Prosopagnosia
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functioning of the right-hemisphere fusiform gyrus is strongly implicated
Prosopagnosia
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can perceive the colors and shapes of objects but they cannot recognize what the objects are
Agnosia
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unable to pay attention to more than one object at a time ; disturbance in the temporal region of the cortex
Simultagnosia
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results from a processing failure in the posterior parietal cortex, where sensorimotor info is processed
Ataxia
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pprinciples/laws of human perception that describe how humans group similar elements, recognize patterns and simplify complex images when we perceive objects.
Gestalt principles
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Adjusting to light, responsible for light adaptation
Cones and rods

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