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occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor
sensation
study of people's tendencies to make correct judgments in detecting the presence of stimuli
signal-detection theory
organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences
perception
smallest change in a physical stimulus that can be detected between two stimuli
difference threshold
weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half the time
absolute threshold
________ may be comined with past experience to yield a perception
sensations
The study of the relationship between sensory experiences and the physical stimuli that cause them is called
psychophysics
The smallest increase or decrease in the intensity of a stimulus that a person can detect is the
just noticeable difference
The method for extracting information automatically from a stimulus is that
preattentive process
The principle that the larger or stronger a stimulus, the larger the change required for an observer to notice a change is called
Weber's law
flexible, transparent struccture in the eye that changes its shape to focus light on the retina
lens
carrise impulses from the inner ear to the brain, resulting in the sensation of sound
audiotory nerve
carries smell impluses from the nose to the brain
olfactory nerve
innermost coating of the back of the eye, containing the light sensitive receptor cells
retina
process of combining the images recieved from the two eyes into a single image
binocular fusion
not a form of electromagnetic radiation
sound waves
_____________ of sound depends on the vibration rate of the medium through which the sound wave is transmitted.
pitch
in vision, the ________ responsible for changing the light energy into neuronal impusles.
rods and cones are
overstimulation of the ____________ can result in dizziness and "motion sickness"
vestibular system
pain results from
many stimuli
brief auditory or visual messages that are presented below the absolute threshold
subliminal messages
apparent movement of stationary objects relative to one another that occures when the observer changes postion
motion parallax
perception that misrepresnt the physical stimuli
illusions
experience that comes from organizing bits and pieces of information into meaningful WHOLES
gestalt
tendency to percieve certain objects in the same way regardless of changing angle, distance or lighting.
constancy
not an organizing principle of construction persceptions
complexity
figure-ground perception is important in both _______ and vision
depth perception
we rely on _____________ when we assume that a steep hill in the distnace will not cause the highway we are on to come to an abruupt halt
perceptual inference
the process by which your eyes turn inward to looks at nearby objects is called
convergence
esp type that involves reading someone else's mind or transferring one's thoughts?
telepathy
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pysch 2
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Updated
2010-11-30T04:13:27Z
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