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| process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment |
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| process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events |
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| analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information |
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| information processing guided by higher level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions based on our experience and expectations |
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| the study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity, and our psychological experience of them |
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| the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time |
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| below one's absolute threshold for conscious awareness |
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| the minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50 percent of the time; experienced as a just noticeable difference (jnd) |
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| the principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage |
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