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SENSATION--PART 1
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Sensation
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The process by which sensory systems (eyes, ears, and other sensory organs) and nervous system receive stimuli from our environment.
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Sensation
The process by which sensory systems (eyes, ears, and other sensory organs) and nervous system receive stimuli from our environment.
Bottom-Up Processing
Information processing that analyzes on the raw stimuli entering through the many sensory systems.
Perception
The process of organizing and interpreting incoming sensory information.
Top-Down Processing
Information processing that draws on expectations and experiences to interpret incoming sensory information
Threshold
An edge or a boundary
