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19 Cards in this Set
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Sensation |
Sensation refers to the process of sensing our environment through touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell.
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Perception |
Perception is the way we interpret these sensations and therefore make sense of everything around us.
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The Primary Tastes |
Sweet, Sour, Salty, and Bitter |
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Order Light Enters Eye |
Cornea, Pupil, Lens, & Retina |
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Monocular Cues |
Overlap, linear perspective, relative size, texture gradient, aerial perspective, & Motion parallax |
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Binocular Cues |
Convergence & Binocular disparity |
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Heritability of color blindness |
women must inherit 2 recessive genes 1 each parent. men only needs 1 recessive gene(from mother's x chromosome) odds are greater in men |
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Habituation |
When the brain stops attending to constant unchanging stimuli |
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Gestalt Principles |
Figure-ground, Proximity, Similarity, Closure, Continuity, Common Region, Contiguity |
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Figure-ground |
tendency to perceive objects or figures as existing on a background |
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Proximity |
tendency to perceive objects that are close to one another as part of the same group |
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Similarity |
tendency to perceive things that look similar as being part of the same group |
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Closure |
tendency to complete figures that are incomplete |
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Continuity |
tendency to perceive things as simply as possible with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern |
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Common Region |
tendency to group things according to a common region |
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Contiguity |
tendency to perceive two things that happen close together in time as being related |
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Top-down Processing |
the use of preexisting knowledge or expectations to organize individual features into a unified whole |
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Bottom-up Processing |
does not involve prior knowledge or expectations |
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Visual Accommodation |
when the lens adjusts to focus on close or distant objects |
