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Chptr. 5 Vocab
Myers
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Psychology
11th Grade
02/27/2013

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Sensation
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the process by which our sensaory receptors and nevous system, recieve and represent stimulus energies from out environment
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Perception
Definition
the process of organizinf and interpreting senory info enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events
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bottom up processing
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anlysis that begin with the senory receptors adn works up to the brains interfrationi sensory information
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top down processsing
Definition
informational processing guided by higher level mental proccesses as wee construct perceptions drawing on our experiences and expectations
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psychophysics
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the study of relationships between physical characteristics of stimuli such as their intesity and our psychologicqal experience of them
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Absolute
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