Sensation and Perception
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- When the brain processes sensory information and uses clues to understand stimuli
- How knowledge, expectations, or past experiences shape the interpretation of sensory information
- Process of converting one form of energy into another
- Technique that can be used to evaluate sensitivity in decision making
- Smallest level of stimulus that can be detected, usually defined as at least half of the time
- Minimum level of stimulation that a person can detect 50% of the time
- Small depression within the neurosensory retina where the visual acuity is the highest
- Specialized neurons in the visual cortex that receives information from retinal ganglion
- Slight difference between the right and left retinal images
- Used to measure depth perception in infants, but it teaches us more about how psychology works
- There are 3 different cone systems in the eye that perceive 3 types of colors: blue, green, and red
- The more a person experiences the fear, the less the fear will affect them
- Refers to how sound is received and perceived by the human ear
- Theory of pitch that states that pitch is related to the speed of vibrations in the basilar membrane
- Spinal cord contains a neurological "gate"that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass onto brain
- Sensory system that contributes to balance and the sense of spatial orientation
- Rules of the organization of perception senses
- Way relationships are formed between things close to one another
- Human eye tends to build a relationship between similar elements within a design
- Our brains desire and ability to complete continuous things from disjoined ones
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