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Unit 4: Sensation and Perception

SENSING THE WORLD

1) Explain what bottom up-processing and top-down processing when trying to understand figure 4.1.

Sensation-

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Perception-

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Bottom-up processing-

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Top-down processing-

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2) Describe what selective attention is and when you’ve displayed it at school.

Selective Attention-

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Inattentional blindness-

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Change blindness-

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3) Explain what absolute thresholds are. Describe what happens when a stimulus is below a threshold.

Psychophysics-

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Absolute threshold-

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Signal detection theory-

Subliminal-

Priming-

Difference threshold-

Weber’s Law-

4) Explain what sensory adaptation is and how it would affect you at school.

Sensory adaptation-

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VISION

5) What is the energy that we as visible light?

Transduction-

Wavelength-

Hue-

Intensity-

6) Explain how the eye transmits light into a neural message

Pupil-

Iris-

Retina-

Accommodation-

Rods-

Cones-

Optic nerve-

Blind Spot-

Fovea-

Label the Eye

7) Explain how the brain processes visual information.

Feature detectors-

Parallel processing-

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8) List the theories that helps us understand color vision.

Young-Helmholtz trichromatic (three color) theory-

Opponent-process theory-

HEARING

9) Describe what sound waves are and how frequency and pitch affect how we hear sound.

Audition-

Frequency-

Pitch-

10) Explain how the brain transforms sound into a neural message.

Middle ear-

Cochlea-

Inner ear-

11) List the theories that help us understand pitch perception.

Place theory-

Frequency theory-

12) Describe how one locates sound.

13) List the common causes of hearing loss. Describe the controversy surrounding cochlear implants.

Conduction hearing loss-

Sensorineural hearing loss-

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Cochlear implant-

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OTHER SENSES

(TOUCH)

14) Describe how the body sense touch, body position, and movement.

Explain a person experiences pain.

Kinesthesis-

Vestibular sense-

Gate-control theory-

(TASTE)

15) Explain how a person experiences taste.

Sensory interaction-

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(SMELL)

16) Explain how a person experiences smell.

PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION

17) Analyze how Gestalt psychologists understand perceptual organization and describe their thought process.

Gestalt-

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18) Explain how figure-ground and grouping principles contribute to our perceptions.

Figure-ground-

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Grouping-

Types of Grouping Explain what these are

Closure

19) Explain depth perception and how binocular cues and monocular cues aid in seeing depth.

Depth perception-

Visual Cliff-

Binocular cues-

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Retinal disparity-

Monocular Cues-

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20) Describe how one perceives motion.

Phi phenomenon-

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21) Explain how shape and size constancies help us organize our sensations into meaningful perceptions.

Perceptual constancy-

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Color constancy-

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PERCEPTUAL INTERPRETATION

22) What does research on sensory deprivation and restored vision reveal about the effects of experience on perception?

23) Explain how one’s ability to perceive things can be adapted.

Perceptual adaptation-

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24) Describe how expectation, contexts, and emotions influence our perceptions.

Perceptual set-

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IS THERE EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION?

25) What are the claims of ESP, and what have most research psychologists concluded after putting these claims to the test?

Extrasensory perception (ESP)-

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Parapsychology-

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