Sensation and Perception Vocab

Areas of the parietal lobe involved in sensations relating to touch.

• Gestalt

• Weber's

• Somatosensory

• Perception

This law states that the stronger the stimulus is the larger the increase that will be needed to detect the change.

• Gestalt

• Weber's

• Somatosensory

• Perception

The four basic principles of this type of psychology are closure, proximity, similarity and simplicity.

• Gestalt

• Weber's

• Somatosensory

• Perception

The processing, organizing and interpreting of the sensory messages.

• Gestalt

• Weber's

• Somatosensory

• Perception

After complex processing in the nervous system, this pattern of electrical activity is generated in the brain.

• optic

• sensation

• perception

• somatosensory

The nerve that carries impulses from the retina to the brain.

• optic

• olfactory

• vagus

• decibels

The nerve that carries impulses from the nose to the brain.

• optic

• olfactory

• vagus

• decibels

The experience associated with a sound's frequency: the highness or lowness of a sound.

• optic

• olfactory

• pitch

• decibels

The sense of movement and body position, acquired through receptors, located in and near the muscles, tendons and joints.

• Gestalt

• kinesthesis

• Somatosensory

• Perception

This visual system provides a three dimensional appearance of the world by giving depth information.

• stereopsis

• kinesthesis

• Somatosensory

• Perception