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16 Cards in this Set
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Absolute threshold |
The minimum amount of stimulus energy that a person can detect |
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Binocular cues |
Depth cues that depend on both eyes working together to see the image properly in depth |
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Bottom up processing |
perception in which sensory receptors register information about the external environment and send it up to the brain for interpretation |
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Cones |
The receptor cells in the retina that allow for color perception |
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Difference threshold |
The degree of difference that must exist between two stimuli before the differences detected |
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Fovea |
Contains all the cones |
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Binding |
The bringing together and integration of what is processed by different neural pathways or cells |
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Convergence |
A binocular cue to depth and distance in which the muscle movements in our two eyes provide about how deep and or far away something is |
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Figure ground relationship |
The principle by which we organize the perceptual field and stimuli that stand out and those that are left over |
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Gestalt psych |
The school of thought interested in how people naturally organize their perceptions according to certain patterns |
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Noise |
Irrelevant and competing stimuli not only sounds but also a distracting stimuli for our senses |
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Monocular cues |
Powerful depth cues available from the image in one either the right eye or the left eye |
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Opponent process Theory |
The theory stating the cells in the visual system respond to complimentary pairs of red-green and blue-yellow colors |
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Rods |
Sensitive to light but not very useful for color vision |
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Perceptual consistency |
Direct mission that objects are constant and unchanging even though sensory input about them is changing |
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Top-down processing |
Allows the organism to sense what is happening and to apply that framework to information from the world |
