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Chapter 3:
Sensation and
Perception
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Sensation and
Perception (1 of 5)
– Module 3.1 Sensing Our World: Basic Concepts of Sensation
– Explain the difference between sensation and perception.
– Define the following basic terms in sensation: absolute and difference thresholds, signal detection theory, and stimulus adaptation.
– Module 3.2 Vision: Seeing the Light
– Module 3.3 Hearing: The Music of Sound
– Module 3.4 Our Other Senses: Chemical, Skin, and Body Senses
– Module 3.5 Perceiving Our World: Principles of Perception
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Module 3.1 Sensing Our World: Basic
Concepts of Sensation
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Absolute and Difference Thresholds: Is Something There? Is Something Else There? (1 of 3)
Sense Stimulus Receptors Threshold
Vision Light energyRods and cones
in the eyes
The flame from a single candle flickering about
30 miles away on a dark, clear night
Hearing Sound wavesHair cells in the
inner ears
The ticking of a watch placed about 20 feet away
from a listener in a quiet room
TasteChemical substances
that contact the tongue
Taste buds on
the tongue
About 1 teaspoon of sugar dissolved in 2 gallons
of water
SmellChemical substances
that enter the nose
Receptor cells in
the upper nostrils
About one drop of perfume dispersed in a
small house
TouchMovement of, or
pressure on, the skin
Nerve endings
in the skin
The wing of a bee falling on the cheek from about
1 centimeter away
TABLE 3.1 Absolute Thresholds for Various Senses
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Absolute and Difference Thresholds: Is Something There? Is Something Else There? (2 of 3)
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Absolute and Difference Thresholds: Is Something
There? Is Something Else There? (3 of 3)
SensationWeber’s Constant
(Approximate)
Saltiness of food 1/5
Pressure on skin 1/7
Loudness of sounds 1/10
Odor 1/20
Heaviness of weights 1/50
Brightness of lights 1/60
Pitch of sounds 1/333
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Signal
Detection:
More Than a
Matter of
Energy
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Sensory
Adaptation:
Turning the
Volume
Down
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Sensation and
Perception (2 of 5)
– Module 3.1 Sensing Our World: Basic Concepts of Sensation
– Module 3.2 Vision: Seeing the Light
– Identify the parts of the eye, describe what happens when lights enters the eye, and explain the roles of rods and cones.
– Describe the two major theories of color vision.
– Module 3.3 Hearing: The Music of Sound
– Module 3.4 Our Other Senses: Chemical, Skin, and Body Senses
– Module 3.5 Perceiving Our World: Principles of Perception
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Module 3.2 Vision:
Seeing the Light
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Light: The Energy of Vision
FIGURE 3.1 The Electromagnetic Spectrum
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The Eye: The
Visionary
Sensory
Organ (1 of 2)
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The Eye: The Visionary Sensory Organ (2 of 2)
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Color Vision:
Sensing a
Colorful
World (1 of 4)
FIGURE 3.7 PRIMARY
COLORS
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Color Vision:
Sensing a
Colorful
World (2 of 4)
FIGURE 3.8 AFTERIMAGES
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Color Vision:
Sensing a
Colorful
World (3 of 4)
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Color Vision:
Sensing a
Colorful
World (4 of 4)
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Sensation and
Perception (3 of 5)
– Module 3.1 Sensing Our World: Basic Concepts of Sensation
– Module 3.2 Vision: Seeing the Light
– Module 3.3 Hearing: The Music of Sound
– Explain how the ear enables us to hear sounds.
– Explain the perception of pitch and identify the main types and causes of deafness.
– Module 3.4 Our Other Senses: Chemical, Skin, and Body Senses
– Module 3.5 Perceiving Our World: Principles of Perception
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Module 3.3 Hearing:
The Music of Sound
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Sound:
Sensing
Waves of
Vibration
FIGURE 3.10 SOUND WAVES
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The Ear: A Sound Machine
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Perception of
Pitch:
Perceiving
the Highs
and Lows
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Hearing Loss:
Are You
Protecting
Your Hearing?
FIGURE 3.12 Sounds and Decibels
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Sensation and
Perception (4 of 5)
– Module 3.1 Sensing Our World: Basic Concepts of Sensation
– Module 3.2 Vision: Seeing the Light
– Module 3.3 Hearing: The Music of Sound
– Module 3.4 Our Other Senses: Chemical, Skin, and Body Senses
– Explain how we sense odors and tastes.
– Identify the various skin senses and explain the gate-control theory of pain.
– Describe the functions of the kinesthetic and vestibular sense, and explain how they work.
– Module 3.5 Perceiving Our World: Principles of Perception
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Module 3.4 Our Other Senses: Chemical, Skin,
and Body Senses
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Olfaction:
What Your
Nose Knows
FIGURE 3.13 Olfaction
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Taste: The
Flavorful
Sense
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The Skin
Sense: Your
Largest
Sensory Organ
FIGURE 3.14 Your Largest Sensory
Organ—Your Skin
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The Kinesthetic and Vestibular Senses: Of Grace and Balance (1 of 2)
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The Kinesthetic
and Vestibular
Senses: Of
Grace and
Balance (2 of 2)
FIGURE 3.15 THE VESTIBULAR
SENSE
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Sensation and
Perception (5 of 5)
– Module 3.5 Perceiving Our World: Principles of Perception
– Describe the roles of attention, perceptual set, and modes of visual processing in perception.
– Identify and describe the Gestalt principles of grouping objects into meaningful patterns or forms.
– Define the concept of perceptual constancy and apply the concept to examples.
– Identify and describe cues we use to judge distance and perceive movement and apply these cues to examples.
– Identify some common types of visual illusions, and explain why it is the brain, not the eyes, that deceives us.
– Evaluate evidence concerning the existence of subliminal perception and extrasensory perception.
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Module 3.5 Perceiving Our World: Principles of Perception
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Perception Versus Reality
Which of the circles in the middle of these two groupings appears larger?
FIGURE 3.16
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Attention: Did
You Notice
That?
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Perceptual
Set: Seeing
What You
Expect to See
(1 of 2)
The letter B or the number 13?
FIGURE 3.17
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Perceptual
Set: Seeing
What You
Expect to See
(2 of 2)
Duck or rabbit?
FIGURE 3.18
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Modes of Visual Perception: Bottom-Up Versus Top-Down
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Figure-Ground Relationships: What does this figure look like? (1 of 2)
– Profiles facing each other or a vase?
– FIGURE 3.19
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Figure-Ground
Relationships:
What does this
figure look like?
(2 of 2)
Old woman or young woman?
FIGURE 3.20
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Gestalt Principles of Perceptual Organization
FIGURE 3.21
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Perceptual
Constancies
FIGURE 3.23
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Monocular Cues to Depth Perception
FIGURE 3.25
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Binocular
Cues to
Depth
Perception
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Visual
Illusions: Do
Your Eyes
Deceive You?
(1 of 2)
Impossible figure
FIGURE 3.27
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Visual
Illusions: Do
Your Eyes
Deceive You?
(2 of 2)
Moon illusion
FIGURE 3.28
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Controversies in Perception: Subliminal Perception and Extrasensory Perception