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19 Cards in this Set
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diminished sensitivity as a consquence of constant stimulation
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sensory adaptation
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info processing guided by higher level mental processes as when we construct perceptions on our experience and expectations
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top down processing
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analysis that begins with the sense receptors & works up to the brains integration of sensory info
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bottom up processing
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retinal receptors that detect black, white, & gray; necessary for peripheral and twilight vision when cones dont respond
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rods
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receptor cells that are concentrated near the center of the retina and that function in daylight or in well lit conditions. The cones detect fine detail and give rise to color sensations
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cones
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sense of hearing
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audition
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system for sensing the position and movenment of individual body parts
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kinesthesis
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conscious repetition of info, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage
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rehearsal
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what is learned in one state (which one is high, drunk, or depressed) can more easily be rememebered in teh same state.
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state-dependent memory
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people unkowningly revise memories
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motivated forgetting
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tendency for vision to dominate the other senses, as when we perceive voices in films as coming from the screen we see rather than from the projector behind us
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visual capture
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perceivign objects as unchanging even as illimuniation and retinal images change
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perceptual constancy
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study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP & psycholkinesis
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parapsychology
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organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate peices of info into meaningful wholes
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gestalt
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mental predispostion to percieve one thing and not another
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perceptual set
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sense of smell
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olfactory receptors
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how we visually organize stimulants, tendency to see lines as continous
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continuity
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shaping, start with a mall peice of behavior and get closer to resembler target, seris of things
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successive approximation
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visual ways we organize things
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closure
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