Psychology Sensation and Perception

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Any change in environment to which an organism responds.

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Stimulus

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A process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive stimulus energy

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Sensation

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A process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events

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Perception

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Each of your senses receives information from the environment, converts it into neural signals in a process called:

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Transduction

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We have prior knowledge about a stimulus.

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Top down processing

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We have no prior knowledge about a stimulus. Only sensory information.

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Bottom up processing

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Minimum difference between two stimuli that a subject can detect

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Difference Threshold

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Minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus

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Absolute Threshold

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To perceive a difference between two stimuli, they must differ by a constant proportion

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Webers Law

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Focus on one stimulus at a time (often at the expense of others)

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Selective Attention