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Sensation

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Special receptors in sense organs are activated

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Synesthesia

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Information is taken in as two senses

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Transduction

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Process of converting outside stimuli into neural activity

3
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Just noticeable stimuli

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Smallest difference between two stimuli

4
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Absolute threshold

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Lowest stimulation that a person can detect

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Habituation

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Tendency to ignore unchanging information

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Sensory adaption

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Less responsive to unchanging stimuli

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Dark adaption

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Recovery of eyes sensitivity to visual stimuli in darkness after exposure to bright lights

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Light adaption

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Recovery of eyes sensitivity to visual stimuli in light after exposure to darkness

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Trichromatic theory

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Theory of color; three types of color: red, blue, and green

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After image

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Image that occurs when a visual sensation persists for a brief time even after stimulus is removed

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Opponent process theory

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Theory of color suggests four primary colors with cones arranged in pairs: red and green, blue and yellow

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Hertz

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Waves per second; a measurement of frequency