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8 Cards in this Set
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sensation |
receive signals from the environment |
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perception |
organizing and interpreting these signals |
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transduction |
process where sensory organs convert stimuli from environment into neural activity |
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sensory coding |
how our brain interprets sensation anatomical- what stimuli is temporal- when stimuli occurs |
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concept of threshold |
a stimulus must present itself over a given threshold to be detected. |
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weber's law |
amount of difference that can be detected depending on stimuli size compared. As stimuli get larger differences also become larger to be detected |
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Just noticeable difference |
smallest difference in a stimulus that a person can detect |
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signal detection method |
best way to determine a person's sensetivity to the occurence of a particular stimulus |
