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| the elementary components/building blocks of an experience |
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| collection of processes used to arrive at a meaningful interpretation of senses |
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| What receptor cells are responsible for vision? |
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| What receptor cells are responsible for hearing? |
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| What receptor cells are responsible for smell? |
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| What receptor cells are responsible for taste? |
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| Define trichromatic theory |
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| Color info is gained by comparing the relative activations of the three different types of cone receptors |
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| Define opponent process theory |
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| cells in the visual pathway increase their activation levels to one color and decrease their activation levels to another color |
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| Define bottom up processing |
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| Processing that starts w/the actual physical message |
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| Pitch perception is determined partly by the frequency of neural impulses traveling up the auditory pathway |
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| What are the 5 Gestalt principles of organization? |
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Law of proximity
Law of similarity
Law of closure
Law of good continuation
Law of common fate |
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| If elements of a display are close to each other (spatial proximity) they tend to be grouped together as part of the same object |
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| Items that share physical properties (physically resemble each other) are placed into the same set |
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| Even when a loop has a gap, we perceive the object as whole |
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| Define law of good continuation |
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| If lines are interrupted, we see continually flowing lines |
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| Define law of common fate |
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| If things appear to be moving in the same direction, we tend to group them together |
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