Sensation & Perception vocabulary review

The process by which our sensory receptors & nervous system receive & represent stimulus energies from our environment.

• perception

• transduction

• sensation

Sensory Nerve endings that respond to stimuli.

• perception

• transduction

• perception

• sensory receptors

The process of organizing & interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects & events.

• Sensation

• perception

• sensory receptors

• transduction

Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors & works up to the brain's integration of sensory information.

• Top-down processing

• bottom-up processing

• transduction

• sensation

Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience & expectations.

• top-down processing

• bottom-up processing

• sensation

• perception

The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus.

• top-down processing

• bottom-up processing

• selective attention

• inattention blindness

Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.

• Selective attention

• top-down processing

• bottom-up brocessing

• inattentional blindness

Failing to notice changes in the environment; a form of inattentional blindness.

• selective attention

• inattentional blindness

• change blindness

• choice blindness

Conversion of one form of energy into another.

• sensation

• perception

• transduction

• bottom-up processing

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

• psychophysics

• biological psychology

• neuropsychology

• sensation & perception