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10 Cards in this Set
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Bottom up |
Details |
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Top down |
Big picture |
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Sensation |
How we receive |
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Perception |
How we interpret |
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Absolute threshold |
smallest/minimal amount of stimulus we can detect 50% of the time |
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Signal Detection Theory |
detection of a stimulus depends on both the intensity of the stimulus and the physical & psychological state of the individual |
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Response Criteria |
how motivated we are to detect stimuli & what we expect to perceive; our willingness |
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1. False positives ( false alarm) |
you thought you heard your name, but nobody said it
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False negatives |
you failed to see the dot when it did appear on optometry vision test
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Subliminal Stimuli |
stimuli below our absolute threshold |
