Sensation and Perception - r/s

Organizing and making sense of incoming sensory information:

• sensation

• perception

• absolute threshold

• difference threshold

Our sensory system receiving stimuli from the environment:

• gestalt

• sensation

• perception

• absolute threshold

Smallest amount of stimuli needed to be detected:

• signal detection

• selective attention

• absolute threshold

• difference threshold

A theory that states how distractions in the environment, and an organism's mental & physical state influence perception:

• sensory adaptation

• signal detection

• difference threshold

• absolute threshold

Our brain filters out non-changing stimuli in the environment:

• signal detection

• sensory adaptation

• difference threshold

• selective attention

Expectations and past experiences have an affect on our perceptions:

• bottom-up processing

• sensory adaptation

• top-down processing

• signal detection

Damaged eardrum causing hearing loss is an example of a problem with:

• bottom-up processing

• perception

• nerve damage

• top-down processing

Smallest amount of change needed in stimulus to notice a change:

• selective attention

• absolute threshold

• difference threshold

• signal detection

Clear, protective covering over the eye:

• cornea

• lens

• iris

• retina

A visual neural impulse travels through this to get to the brain for interpretation:

• auditory nerve

• olfactory nerve

• optic nerve

• retina