Study sets matching "sensation and sensation perception set"
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Sensation
Perception
Bottom-Up Processing
Top-Down Processing
The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system…
The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information…
Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up t…
Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes…
Sensation
The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system…
Perception
The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information…
cue approach to depth perception
occlusion
oculomotor cues
monocular cues
focusing on identifying information in the retinal image that…
cue that one object is in front of another
cues elicited from feeling of eyes converging and accommodatin…
cues including accommodation, pictoral cues (sources of depth…
cue approach to depth perception
focusing on identifying information in the retinal image that…
occlusion
cue that one object is in front of another
Visual Acuity
Snellin eye chart
20/60 vision
minimum visual acuity
Smallest spatial detail resolvable at 100% contrast.
the chart at the eye doctor.
you would need to be 20 feet away to see something that someon…
the smallest object one can detect (is there something there?)
Visual Acuity
Smallest spatial detail resolvable at 100% contrast.
Snellin eye chart
the chart at the eye doctor.
ventral pathway - what happens here?
dorsal pathway - what happens here?
What do both pathway dorsal and ventral…
What evidence does neuropsychology have…
It is the "What" Pathway, where the Occipital lobe goes to the…
It is the "Where" and "How" Pathway where the Occipital Lobe g…
- originate in retina and continue through two... types of gangli…
- Single dissociations: two functions... involve different mechan…
ventral pathway - what happens here?
It is the "What" Pathway, where the Occipital lobe goes to the…
dorsal pathway - what happens here?
It is the "Where" and "How" Pathway where the Occipital Lobe g…
Sensation
Perception
Labeled line Coding
Cross Fiber Coating
detection of some physical energy in the real world. Physical…
• is the interpretation of sensation. How do you understand th…
• Info related to which receptor/ nerve fiber is activated.... o…
• Info contacted in the pattern of activation across several f…
Sensation
detection of some physical energy in the real world. Physical…
Perception
• is the interpretation of sensation. How do you understand th…
sensation
perception
receptors
neural response
the registration of physical stimuli on sensory receptors
the process of creating conscious perceptual experiences
specialized sensory neurons that respond to stimuli and help t…
an electrical signal that is sent to the brain
sensation
the registration of physical stimuli on sensory receptors
perception
the process of creating conscious perceptual experiences
signal detection theory
hit
false alarm
miss
a framework for measuring how people make decisions based on n…
in a signal detection experiment, a response indicating that a…
in a signal detection experiment, a response indicating that a…
in a signal detection experiment, a response indicating that n…
signal detection theory
a framework for measuring how people make decisions based on n…
hit
in a signal detection experiment, a response indicating that a…
cue approach to depth perception
occlusion
oculomotor cues
monocular cues
focusing on identifying information in the retinal image that…
cue that one object is in front of another
cues elicited from feeling of eyes converging and accommodatin…
cues including accommodation, pictoral cues (sources of depth…
cue approach to depth perception
focusing on identifying information in the retinal image that…
occlusion
cue that one object is in front of another
absolute threshold
action
bottom up processing
categorize
the smallest stimulus level that can be detected
final behavior response which involves motor activities
processing that is based on incoming data
to place objects into categories
absolute threshold
the smallest stimulus level that can be detected
action
final behavior response which involves motor activities
What receptors are simply ion channels?
What receptors are metabotropic?
How do we code for primary taste? Inten…
How do we tell difference within a prim…
Salt and Sour
Sweet, Bitter, and Umami
labelled line coding... rate law
cross fiber patterning
What receptors are simply ion channels?
Salt and Sour
What receptors are metabotropic?
Sweet, Bitter, and Umami
Meissner's corpuscle
Pacinian corpuscle
Ruffini ending
Merkel's disc
Specialized transduction cells in FAI mechanoreceptors (Ex: Pu…
Specialized transduction cells in FAII mechanoreceptors (Deep…
Specialized transduction cells in SAII mechanoreceptors... - Slow…
- Specialized epithelial cell... - Perceives sustained light touc…
Meissner's corpuscle
Specialized transduction cells in FAI mechanoreceptors (Ex: Pu…
Pacinian corpuscle
Specialized transduction cells in FAII mechanoreceptors (Deep…
akinetopsia
aperture problem
apparent motion
biological motion
A condition in which damage to an area of the cortex involved…
Occurs when only a portion of a moving stimulus can be seen, a…
An illusion of movement that occurs when... two objects separated…
Motion produced by biological organisms. Most of the experimen…
akinetopsia
A condition in which damage to an area of the cortex involved…
aperture problem
Occurs when only a portion of a moving stimulus can be seen, a…
perception
perceptual process
distal stimulus
principle of transformation
conscious experience that results from stimulation of the sens…
the seven step process from stimuli to responses (begins with…
first step of the perceptual process... a distant stimuli out th…
stimuli and responses created by stimuli are transformed, or c…
perception
conscious experience that results from stimulation of the sens…
perceptual process
the seven step process from stimuli to responses (begins with…
Definition of sensation
Definition of perception
Adaptation
Absolute Threshold
sensation is the ability to detect a stimulus and perhap's to…
The act of giving meaning to a detected sensation... Perception…
if there is no change in stimulation our senses adapt and we n…
is the minimum amount of stimulation necessary for a person to…
Definition of sensation
sensation is the ability to detect a stimulus and perhap's to…
Definition of perception
The act of giving meaning to a detected sensation... Perception…
Sensation
Perception
Task of Perception
% of the brain devoted to seeing
process of detecting and encoding environmental energy.
organization and interpretation of sensory information. ... the…
take input from sensory receptors and figure out what is out t…
50-60%
Sensation
process of detecting and encoding environmental energy.
Perception
organization and interpretation of sensory information. ... the…
Sensation
Perception
Sensation and Perception studied by
S&P is a scientific pursuit and require…
the ability to detect a stimulus, and turn that detection into…
the act of giving meaning to a detected sensation
psychologists, biologists, computer scientists, doctors, neuro…
-thresholds... -signal detection theory... -sensory neuroscience... -ne…
Sensation
the ability to detect a stimulus, and turn that detection into…
Perception
the act of giving meaning to a detected sensation
action specific perception hypothesis
affordance
audiovisual mirror neurons
border cells
Hypothesis that people perceive their environment in terms of…
The information specified by a stimulus pattern that indicates…
Neuron that responds to actions that produce sounds. These neu…
Neurons that fire when an animal is near the edge of an enviro…
action specific perception hypothesis
Hypothesis that people perceive their environment in terms of…
affordance
The information specified by a stimulus pattern that indicates…
Sensation
Psychophysics
-Constant Stimuli... -50... -S-Curve
Transduction
Contact between an organism and the physical world that is det…
________ is the science of measuring and defining quantitative…
An experimenter wants to determine the absolute threshold for…
The process of changing a physical stimulus, such as sound wav…
Sensation
Contact between an organism and the physical world that is det…
Psychophysics
________ is the science of measuring and defining quantitative…
Accommodation
Convergence
Occlusion
Relative Height
oculomotor cue that involves automatic processes bringing imag…
to focus on something, oculomotor muscles cause eyes to "cross…
one object partially covers another; object that is covering m…
objects that are higher in the field of vision (closer to hori…
Accommodation
oculomotor cue that involves automatic processes bringing imag…
Convergence
to focus on something, oculomotor muscles cause eyes to "cross…
sensation
senses
perception
representations
This entails the first steps in the perceptual process. Physic…
These are used to transduce physical features of the environme…
This entails the last steps of the perceptual process. The ele…
These are used to characterize stimuli so that it may be recog…
sensation
This entails the first steps in the perceptual process. Physic…
senses
These are used to transduce physical features of the environme…
Distal Stimulus
Proximate Stimulus
how many stages from the physical to th…
Dendrites
The object in the environment
The signals that reach our sensory receptors: how the distal s…
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Receive neurotransmitters from the pre-synaptic neuron
Distal Stimulus
The object in the environment
Proximate Stimulus
The signals that reach our sensory receptors: how the distal s…
signal detection theory
hit
false alarm
miss
a framework for measuring how people make decisions based on n…
in a signal detection experiment, a response indicating that a…
in a signal detection experiment, a response indicating that a…
in a signal detection experiment, a response indicating that n…
signal detection theory
a framework for measuring how people make decisions based on n…
hit
in a signal detection experiment, a response indicating that a…
attentional capture
covert attention
fixation
local field potential
Occurs when stimulus salience causes an involuntary shift of a…
Attention without looking. Seeing something "out of the corner…
The brief pause of the eye that occurs between eye movements a…
An electrical response recorded with disc electrodes placed on…
attentional capture
Occurs when stimulus salience causes an involuntary shift of a…
covert attention
Attention without looking. Seeing something "out of the corner…
Internal attention
What are the 3 types of cues?
T or F: The effect of a cue develops ov…
Inhibition of return (IOR)
attending to one line of thought over another or selecting one…
valid, invalid, or neutral (uninformative)
true
-the relative difficulty in getting attention (the eyes) to mo…
Internal attention
attending to one line of thought over another or selecting one…
What are the 3 types of cues?
valid, invalid, or neutral (uninformative)
Scaling
Gustav Fechner
Dualism
Materialism
measuring a private experience
-invented psychophsyics... -middle ground b/w dualism vs. materia…
the mind and the body are separate
-the mind and the body are not separate... -the mind and consciou…
Scaling
measuring a private experience
Gustav Fechner
-invented psychophsyics... -middle ground b/w dualism vs. materia…