AP Psychology — Sensation
Review of Biological Psychology; Sensation and Perception
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- The organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information, or the environment.
- The development of pattern recognition through the use of contextual information.
- The theory of color vision stating that there are three receptors in the retina that are responsible for the perception of color.
- The dark circular opening in the center of the iris of the eye, varying in size to regulate the amount of light reaching the retina.
- The form sound takes to propagate through a medium such as air, water and solids.
- The transparent front part of the eye that covers the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber.
- The historically important psychological law quantifying the perception of change in a given stimulus.
- The faculty of perception through physical contact, especially with the fingers.
- The segment of the electromagnetic spectrum that the human eye can view.
- The sensory system that provides the leading contribution to the sense of balance and spatial orientation for the purpose of coordinating movement with balance.
- Vision, hearing, and touch.
- Stimuli that lie below our threshold of conscious awareness.
- The ability to perceive sounds by detecting vibrations.
- In which color perception is limited and inaccurate.
- Sensory analysis that begins at the entry level—with what our senses can detect.
- A transparent structure in the eye that helps to refract light to be focused on the retina.
- Partial or total hearing loss due to damage in the inner ear.
- Non-painful input closes the nerves to painful input, which prevents pain sensation.
- The lowest level of a stimulus that an organism can detect.
- The ability to know accurately the positions and movements of one's skeletal joints.
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