•Chapter 6: Sensation & Perception

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Common sense?

Sense detectives

Sense This! Vision Potpourri

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Your sense of balance.

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You and a friend see some hovering shapes in the sky. You say they are weather balloons, your friend says

they are flying saucers. The two of you share a

sensation, but differ in this.

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Your sense of the position & movement of your body

parts.

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Sound waves pass through this part of your inner ear triggering nerve impulses.

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A rare condition in which a stimulation of one sense

causes a sensation in another. For example, a person may a smell the

color purple.

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Your dog’s ability to hear a whistle that you can’t is due to

this.

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The minimum difference needed to detect a stimulus 50% of the time.

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You don’t feel the watch on your wrist or underwear on your

booty because of this.

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When you are at prom talking with your friends and you hear me call your name in

the midst of all of the noise it illustrates this phenomenon.

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Texting is dangerous while driving due to this focusing

of conscious awareness elsewhere.

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This theory says that the retina contains three different color receptors – sensitive to

red, green, blue- & can combine to make any color.

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The opponent-process theory argues that color vision is

enabled by opposing colors. These are the 3 sets of

opposing colors.

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These are the nerve cells that allow you to see angles, lines, and edges in this

room.

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The theory that your central nervous system blocks or

allows pain signals to pass through.

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Theory that says that sense detection varies depending on

a persons’ decision, alertness, motivation.

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The part of the eye that focuses objects on the retina.

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A clear covering that protects the eye.

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When my driver’s license says my eyes are blue, it is referring

to this part of the eye.

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If the sun is too bright, this part of the eye will constrict to let in less light. It looks like a black dot in the middle of your eye.

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It’s where the optic nerve leaves the eye. You can’t see an

image if it is projected here.

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Rods and cones are located here where visual

information begins being processed.

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Receptors that allows you to see color and

details.

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When you get up to go to the restroom in the middle of the night, these receptors help you make your way through

the dark.

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Sensory information being converted into neural

messages that our brains can process.

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This type of deafness might occur because you listened

to music far too loud.

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Inside the eye

Color & Form

Deep, constant, illusions

Powers of perception

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Interior lining of the back of the eye. Contains light receptors.

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Without these light receptors you’d see the world in black

and white.

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Very sensitive to light, these receptors help you find

your seat in a dim movie theatre.

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Located at the center of the retina, it is the spot with the heaviest concentration of

cones.

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The axons of these cells gang up to form the optic

nerve.

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The theory that there are three types of cones in the retina that

are sensitive to different wavelengths of light.

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We don’t see reddish green because cells that detect

red and green are antagonistic according to

this theory.

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The Gestalt principle that things that are alike tend to be seen as going together.

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X 0 X

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The German word for form. A group of psychologists who

studied form perception used it as their label.

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These cells in the visual cortex are sensitive to very specific aspects of a visual

stimulus

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You only need one good eye to use this type of depth cue.

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Although a partially open door projects a trapezoidal image

on your retina, you will tend to say the door is a rectangle

because of this psychological phenomenon.

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The fact that one eye doesn’t see exactly what the other eye sees is the basis for this depth cue.

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A systematic error in perception.

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It’s the depth cue that describes why in this picture you conclude that person “A” is closer to you because she is partially

obscuring your view of person “B”.

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An apparatus used to test whether or not babies

have depth perception.

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These are the 4 tastes.

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A certain time window during development during which

an organism must have certain experiences in order

to develop normal perception.

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The effect that our experiences and expectations (schemas)

have on our perception.

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It may explain why many people won’t notice that this this sentence has repeated a word.

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It’s not a type of sandwich. It’s the name for detection of

a stimulus that is below one’s absolute threshold.

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The branch of psychology that studies extrasensory

perception.

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It’s your textbook’s answer to whether or not you should invest in a set of tapes that promises to improve your

memory by playing them while you sleep.

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The term for the ability to directly communicate with

another person via the mind alone.

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It’s the reason scientists had doubts about a Russian girl’s

ability to see colors and objects while she is blindfolded.

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Sensational Senses

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When a stimulus is unchanging, our neurons fire less frequently, and we stop responding to the stimulus.

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What is:

Vestibular sense?

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Perception?(Perception is the process of interpreting sensations

and giving them meaning. So even though you and your friend are “seeing” the same stimulus, your

interpretations are different.)

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Kinesthesis?

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Cochlea?

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What are:Synesthesia?

(Apparently this is due to some people have an atypically large number of connections between brain areas that process different senses. Imagine feeling a sound, or tasting a picture!)

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Absolute thresholds?(Dogs have sound receptors that can pick up higher frequency

sounds than do humans. This means that dogs have a lower absolute threshold for sound than do humans. That is, dogs’ sound receptors are more sensitive. Give yourself credit for

any related explanation. )

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Difference threshold?

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Sensory Adaptation?

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Cocktail Party Effect?

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What is:Selective Attention?

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Young-Helmholtz trichromatic ( 3 color) theory?

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What are:Red-Green

Blue-Yellow

White-Black

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Feature detectors?

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Gate-control theory of pain?

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What is:Signal detection theory?

(According to this theory, when we try to measure the sensitivity of human senses we are not only measuring the ability to detect a sense. We are also measuring a person’s

decision about whether or not they think they detected a stimulus.)

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The lens?

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What is:The cornea?

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The iris?

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The pupil?(The iris controls the size of the pupil.)

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Blind spot?(There are no light receptors (cones or rods)

at this location.)

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The retina?

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Cones?

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Rods?

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Transduction?

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Sensorineural Hearing Loss?

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Retina?

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cones?(These light receptors allow for the perception of color.

It’s more accurate to say you’d see the world not only in black and white, but also as a series of grays. )

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rods?

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fovea?

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Ganglion cells?

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Trichromatic color theory?(red – long wavelengths, green – medium

wavelengths, blue – short wavelengths)

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Opponent process theory?(When pairs of cells are antagonistic or opponents, when one cell is firing, the other one cannot fire. Thus if the cell sensitive to red is firing, the green cell cannot fire – so we can’t perceive

a reddish green.)

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Similarity?

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For example, most people describe the array at the left as a column Xs, column of 0s, column of Xs. That is, tend to see similar objects as grouped.

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Gestalt? (The Gestalt psychologists studied form and shape

perception.)

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Feature detectors?(For example, some cells in the visual cortex only

respond or fire when a horizontal line is part of the visual stimulus. Some cells only respond to

vertical lines.)

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Monocular?

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Shape constancy?

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Retinal disparity?

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illusion

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interposition?

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The visual cliff?

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Sweet

Salty

Sour

Bitter?

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Critical period?(For example, if a person is born blind and his or her sight is corrected during about the first nine months of life, that person is likely to develop normal sight. If the cause of the blindness is corrected later, however, when the person is older, he or she may recover some abilities, but probably won’t see normally.)

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Top-down processing?

(bottom-up processing is taking the pieces of the puzzle to understand)

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Perceptual set?(Our perceptions can be affected by our expectations and by our habitual ways of

perceiving. We expect sentences not to have repeated words, so we may overlook them when

they appear. )

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subliminal?(There is evidence that simple visual stimuli that you are exposed to so briefly that you aren’t aware of it, can affect your behavior. There is not support for the idea that more complex information is effective if presented at a subliminal level. )

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Parapsychology?(Some research by parapsychologists has been

criticized for not being well designed and not properly testing ESP claims.)

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NO?(There is no evidence that such tapes work.)

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Telepathy?(This is a form of ESP or extrasensory perception. There is no reliable evidence

that any person has this ability.)

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She was peeking? (For example, she could only identify objects that were held low – where she could see them if she was peeking from under the blindfold. Her tricks only worked when she wore the

blindfold her “teacher” gave her.)

Final Jeopardy

(For example, you may get used to the smell of the fish you had for

dinner and no longer notice it.)

What isSensory adaptation?