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Psychology Test 2
Covers chapters 3 and five
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
09/15/2011

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sensation
Definition
identifying stimuli
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perception
Definition
interpretation of the sensation(based on outside experiences)
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sensory threshold
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minimum intensity to cause brain to activate
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senses
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vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch
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absolute threshold
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1/2 the time it takes for someone to detect sense
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difference threshold
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smallest amount of change to create a noticable difference
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just noticable difference (jnd)
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the amount of change in a stimulus that makes it just detectably different from what it was
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Weber's Law
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larger the stimulus- less chance to detect a difference
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sensory adaptation
Definition
continually something that something you are used to- senses adapt
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light
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stimulus for vision, wave of energy
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wave amplitude
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intensity of the light (brightness)
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wavelength
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distance between to points (color of thing)
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IN THE EYE: cornea
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the outside covering
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IN THE EYE: pupil
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opening to allow light(when its darker, its bigger)
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IN THE EYE: Iris
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color of the eye, expands and contracts
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IN THE EYE: cililary muscles
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allows you to focus, and overtime can become hardened (NOT GOOD)
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IN THE EYE: optic nerve
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comes from the eyeball, and goes to brain.
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IN THE EYE: Fovea
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the place in the retina where visual cuity iws best in daylight or in reasonably high levels of illumination
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EYES: Blind spot
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where nerves leave the eye.
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IN THE EYE: retina
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the place where vision begins to take place; where light wave energy is transduced into neural energy
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EYE: rods
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do NOT respond to color
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EYE: cones
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(think icecream) responses to color
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COLORS: Trichormatic theory
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three distinct colors: red, blue, green
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COLORS: Opponent process theory
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color viosins works by means of three pairs of mechanisms that respond to different wavelengths of light, a blue-yellow, red-green, black-white (ONE OR OTHER!)
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SOUND: amplitude
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intensity determines loudness
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EAR: Pinna
Definition
outside of the ear
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EAR: chochlea
Definition
major structure of the ear
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which is good for persausion? left or right ear.
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RIGHT!
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POSITION SENSES: vestibular sense
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goes with gravity, balence and acceleration
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POSITION SENSES: kinesthetic sense
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the sense that informs us about body postion with receptors in joins, muscles, and tendons
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SMELL: Vomeronasal organ (VNO)
Definition
the primary organ involved in the detection of pheromones
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gate-control mechanism
Definition
spinal chord involved in pain (open-pain; closed-stop)
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thearapy for stress
Definition
cognitive behavioral, drug theraphy (hypnosis), and counterirration
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perception
Definition
intrepretting details
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salient
Definition
detail
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stimulus
Definition
odd thing that attracts eye, normally out of the ordinary
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contrast
Definition
big factor in what people notice
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bottom-up processing
Definition
take it and put it away
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top-down processing
Definition
mental will effect perception (BRAIN IS ON TOP, it analyzes and perceives
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Dr. Whitt's idea that golfers see hole bigger when better shows what?
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beliefs influence preception
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(Gesalt) What is the difference between ground and figure
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Figure is main, ground is surrounding
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common fate
Definition
ending together, expect to start and end together
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closure
Definition
a person fills in spaces that are missing
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perceptual constancies
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organize and interpreate stimulus
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(Classical Conditioning) Learning
Definition
permanant change and occurs as a result of pratice/expirience
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Ivan Pavlov
Definition
did the dog thing with the food and the bell (dogs salavated)
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(classic) uncondtioned stiumulus
Definition
stimulus that automatically gets a response (LEMON, slurp)
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(classic) uncondtioned response (UCR)
Definition
response that autmoatically happens as a result of the stimulus (lemon, SLURP)
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(classic) Conditioning Stimulus (CS)
Definition
new stimulus we deliver at same time we give old stimulus (lemon, BELL, slurp)
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(classic) conditioning response (CR)
Definition
response to conditioned stimulus (bell, SLURP)
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orienting reflex
Definition
simple unlearned response of attending to an unusual stimulus
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habitualization
Definition
organism comes to ignore stimulus of little or no consequence (blinking light over five hours)
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Rescorla-Wagner Model
Definition
learning depends on the surpris element of UCS
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Acquisition
Definition
stage at CS and UCS are paid and strength of CR increasons (learning to SLURP at the WHISTLE)
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Extinction
Definition
strength of CR goes down (just whistle, you will catch on)
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generalizatin
Definition
CR elicted by stimmuli different from but similiar (bell...now a horn)
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discrimination
Definition
ONE CS not others(know the difference)
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spontaneous discovery
Definition
extincion, rest break, more of the same responses
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systematic desnesitizatoin
Definition
relax, anxiety hierarchy, least anxious thing, work up to the most
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counterconditioning
Definition
specific, easily identifiable stimuli and work your way up
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