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11 Cards in this Set
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Sensation |
brain receives info from sensory organs |
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Perception |
makes sense out of sensory organs |
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bottom up processing |
taking sensory info and processing it |
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top down processing |
using models, and ideas, expectations to interpret sensory information |
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photoreception |
detection of light |
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mechanoreception |
touch, hearing |
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chemoreception |
smell and taste |
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absolute Threshold |
minimum level of stimuli that can detect 50% of the time |
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Signal detection theory |
whether or not we can detect stimuli in background noise |
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Weber's Law |
for two stimuli to be perceived as different must differ by a percentage |
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Perceptual Set |
what we expect influences what we do see (top down processing) |
