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| _____ is the area of psychology that addresses the topic of sensation, the topic includes levels of intensity, how sensitive we are to changes in stimuli |
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| according to ____ _____ theory, our ability to notice a stimulus will very due to physiological factors including motivation, past experience and expectations. |
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| The minimum stimulation needed for a given person to detect a given stimulus is called ______ _______. |
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| the smallest difference a person can detect between 2 stimuli is called the _____ ______ difference. |
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Just Noticeable Difference
aka difference threshold |
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| according to _______ Law, this threshold increases in proportion to the magnitude of the stimuli |
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| When exposed to an unchanging stimuli, our sensitivity to the stimulus diminishes, this is called _____ _____. |
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| The nervous system has individual receptors for different types of stimulus, called ______ detectors, |
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| The amount of information we can hold in our awareness is LESS than what is available, thus ______ attention illustrates how our ideas of reality have o be chosen, organized and interpreted. |
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| ______ psychologists were among the first to formulate rules by which brain pieces together meaningful experiences out of fragments of sensation ( how the mind fill out gaps in our sensations) |
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| ______ perception allows us to estimate distances between ourselves and the objects we see |
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| _______ Cues require both eyes, b/c of the spacing between our eyes, each retina receives slightly different picture of the world. This _______ disparity is the 1st clue to distance |
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Binocular Cues
Retinal Disparity |
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| ________ is the 2nd binocular cue, the extent to which the eyes must turn inward to focus on an object. greater ____ indicates closer object. |
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| _____ Cues to depth perception require only one eye. |
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| _____ Perspective refers to the fact that parallel lines appear to converge as they get farther away (train tracks) |
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(type of monocular cues)
______ parallax refers to the apparent movement of stable objects as we move ourselves. |
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Motion Parallax
aka "relative motion" |
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| While driving, you focus on a tree, this is the _____ point |
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| When one object blocks the view of another, it is called ________. |
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| If sensory is deprived in early life, as the animal/human grows up, they will not be able to or have limited perception to this stimulus |
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| ______ Period is when exposure to appropriate stimulus is required in order for those developmental perceptual skills to form |
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| Another way to experience shapes perception is through _____ sets: predispositions to perceive one thing and not another |
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| Processing information about environment from simple sensory receptors to more complex neural networks is called a ______-______ fashion |
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| Processing info from environment from expectations, motives and contextual cues to raw sensory data. |
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