Unit 3- Sensation & Perception Vocab Check

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Perception is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information.

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Enables recognition of meaningful objects and events.

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Analysis starting with sensory receptors to brain integration is...

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bottom-up processing

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Top-Down Processing is...

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information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, constructing perceptions from experience and expectations.

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Focusing conscious awareness on a stimulus is...

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selective attention

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Inattentional blindness is...

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failing to see visible objects when attention is directed elsewhere.

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Change blindness is...

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failing to notice changes in the environment.

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Conversion of energy forms; transforming stimuli (sights, sounds, smells) into neural impulses is...

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transduction

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Psychophysics is...

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the study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity, and our psychological experience of them.

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Minimum stimulation to detect a stimulus 50% of the time:

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absolute threshold

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Signal detection theory is a theory predicting how and when we detect faint stimuli amid background noise. It assumes no single absolute threshold; detection depends on experience, expectations, motivation, and alertness.

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A theory predicting how and when we detect faint stimuli amid background noise. Detection depends on experience, expectations, motivation, and alertness.