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Bottom Up Processing

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to build a complete perception. Start with the individual characteristics of the image and put all those characteristics together into our final perception

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Top down processing

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Recognition

Percieve by filling gaps in what we sense, use background knowledge

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Sensory Receptors

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Work up to sensory information

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Selective attention

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Ignoring things on purpose

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Cocktail party phenomenon

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Talking to one person at a loud party

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Inattentional Blindness

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Chosing to ignore something

Ex gorilla at basketball practice

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Change Blindness

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Not noticing change in stimuli

Men giving directions

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Absolute threshold

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Minimal stimulation required to notice a change

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Signal Detection Theory

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Detect a background stimuli
Hit= signal present + detected
Miss= dont sense it
False Alarm- sense whats not there
Correction rejection- double absent
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Just noticeable differencd

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Minimum amount to distinguish a difference

Webers law = 10%

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Retina

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Picture screen with rod and cone recdptors

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Rods

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Black and white

Light sensitive

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Cones

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Color
More of them
Color sensitive

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Transduction

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Conversion of one form of energy to another (stimulus energy to neural impulses)

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Wavelength

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Frequency/ pitch

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Amplitude

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Loudness/ height of the soundwave

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Parapyschology

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The study of unorthodox pyschology
ESP- prior knowledge
Telapathy- brain talk
Clarivoignce- talk to dead
No one has ever proven this in a lab
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Pyscholonesos

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Make things up with your mind

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Monocular cues

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Requires 1 eye
Relative height- taller = closer
Interposition- blocking =closer
Linear Perspective 3D on 2D surface
Relative motion close= pass faster
Light & Shadow shows depth
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Binocular cues

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Relys on both eyes

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Retinal convergence

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Turn eyes in to see closer

Ex finger hot dogs

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Binocular Disparity

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Closer= more different
2 eyes
Required for depth, retinal disparity, and convergence

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Feature Detector

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Reckgonized complex patterns

Occipital lobe inwards

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Hammer anvil stirrup

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Middle ear

Passes vibrations from eardrum to cochlea

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Cochlea
Liquid with receptor cells CILIA hairs
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Place Theory
Sound depends on LOCATION of movement
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Frequency Theory
sound depends on SPEED of movement
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Phi phenomenon
Illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and of in quick sucession Ex vegas
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Types of taste
``` Sweet = energy Salty = sodium Sour = toxic acid Bitter = poisionous Umami(savory)= protiens ```
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Olfactory receptors
In nasal cavity Go to olfactory bulb Brain processing near hippocampus - smells linked with memory
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Noceptors
Interpret pain in the nerve canal
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Gate Control Theory
The spinal cord blocks or passes brain signals The information is opened by nerve impulses/ activity Small fibers =open Large fibers = closed
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Kinesthesis
System for sensing position including the sense of balance
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Vestibular Sense
System for sensing position and movement of a body part
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Visual cliff experiment
Babies on a "cliff" dont go off the edge | Depth is a nature instinct
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Gestalt
Processes pieces of information into wheels continuing | Complete unfinished images
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Figure ground
Perception of figures against a background
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Continuity
When people usually prefer to see smooth, continuous patterns, not disrupted ones
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Similarity
People think of similar objects as belonging together
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Proximity
The nearness of lines
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Closure
The tendency to perceive a complete or whole figure even when there are gaps in what senses tell you
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Monocular cues
Only need one eye to be percieved
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Linear perspective
Can draw 2 lines and see them meet
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Interposition
If something is blocking your view, perceive it as closer
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Relative size
If we assume two objects are similar in size, we perceive the one that casts the smaller retinal image as farther away
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Texture Gradient
Gradual change from distinct textures to indistinct textures = greater distance Far away appear more densly packed
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Relative height
Perceive objects higher in our field of vision as farther away
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Relative motion
As we move, objects that are stationary appear to move
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Schema
What we have learned and organized from our experiences
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Looming
When things coming closer to you it appears to be bigger | Is it really?

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