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| Level at which one can correctly detect a stimulus 50% of the time. |
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| Sensory Information -> detecting the basic features of a stimulus in the process of recognizing WHOLE patterns. |
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| Mental/Perceived Information -> emphasizes importance of observer's knowledge, expectations, and other cognitive processes to get a meaningful perception; taking whole into PARTS. |
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| Raw information taken in by sensory organs. |
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| How the brain interprets the information coming in. |
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| Can you have Sensation without Perception? Vice versa? |
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Yes!
Mental Images (memories, hallucinations) -> percep without sens.
Case of Blindsight (blind but can recognize objects) -> sens without percep. |
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| Describe path vision takes through eye |
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| Image -> Cornea -> pupil -> iris -> lens (image flips) -> retina (detects light) -> optic nerve. |
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| What are the five taste buds? |
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1 - Bitter: poison.
2 - Sweet: sugar,glucose.
3 - Sour: acid.
4 - Salty: sodium, potassium.
5 - Unmami: proteins. |
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| What 2 senses make up the perception of "flavor?" |
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| light becomes neural signals. |
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Rods: grayscale, light sensitive.
Cones: color, foveal. |
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Proposed by Young-Helmholtz.
You see three colors: RED BLUE GREEN. |
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| Name 5 Grouping Principles by Gestalt |
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1 - Proximity.
2 - Similarity.
3 - Continuity.
4 - Connectedness.
5 - Closure. |
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| Name 2 kinds of Hearing Loss |
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1 - Conductive: mechanical structure damage (physical stuff).
2 - Sensorineural: neuralogical process damage (hair cells damaged) IRREVERSIBLE. |
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| Knowing where your body is in a general space. |
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| sense of balance - located in inner ear. |
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| How can one control Pain? |
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1 - Gate Control Theory.
2 - Psychological Interventions.
3 - Medication.
4 - "playing through the pain." |
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| Binocular & Monocular Cues |
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Bino: retinal disparity - depth cue that requires use of both eyes.
Mono: depth cue that can be processed by either eye alone -> relative height/size. |
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| stimuli that are below the threshold of conscious awareness; UNCONSCIOUS PERCEPTION. |
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