Threshold AP psychology

What is the absolute threshold?

• The minimum level of energy needed from a stimulus to be perceived.

• The maximum level of energy needed from a stimulus to be perceived.

• The level of energy from a stimulus.

• How easily a stimulus is perceived.

What is a sensation?

• The reaction to a stimulus.

• The mental process happening immediately after one of the 5 sense is stimulated.

• How a stimulus is processed in the brain.

• A reaction to a stimulus.

What is priming?

• When 2 stimuli are introduced back to back.

• Setting up a reaction to a stimulus.

• The first step to painting anything.

• How the introduction of one stimulus affects the reaction to another stimulus.

What is Subliminal Stimulation?

• The level of energy from a stimulus that is not perceptible.

• How much energy is needed to be perceived.

• The level of energy from not perceptible to perceptible.

• Level of perception

What is the signal detection theory?

• How a sound affects our detection of stimuli.

• What signals our senses to perceive something.

• How and when we predict the presence of a stimulus.

• The anxiety from when your alarm clock wakes you up.

What is Webers Law?

• How spiders create their webs so strong.

• That the change in a stimulus is just as noticeable as the original state of the stimuli.

• The law of how reactions to stimuli change.

• How different stimuli display different reactions depending on the person.

What is perception?

• Awareness of stimuli around an individual.

• How someone perceives something.

• The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information from your point of view.

• Intuitive understanding and insight.

What is top-down processing?

• Making a decision starting with the top of the brain.

• How we process information starting with the top of the brain going down.

• The look you give to someone you think is attractive.

• Info processing that is done with higher level mental processes.

What is the difference threshold?

• How often you can perceive a stimulus.

• The minimum level of stimulation that a person can detect 50 percent of the time.

• How we differ stimuli we cannot see.

• The difference between 2 stimuli and how easy it is to perceive them.

What is psychophysics?

• The study of how physical processes affect mental processes and sensations.

• The study of how psychology can be explained through physics.

• The study of physics through a psychology mindset.

• The study of how the mental processes and sensations affect physical processes.