Maya- Unit 3 Quizzez

the process by which we receive physical energy from the environment and encode it into neural signals.

• Sensation

• Perception

• Bottom-up processing

• Top-down processing

the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information.

• Selective attention

• Bottom-up processing

• Perception

• Top-down processing

analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain’s integration of sensory information.

• Sensation

• Bottom-up processing

• Top-down processing

• Perception

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

• Selective attention

• Bottom-up processing

• none

• Top-down processing

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

• Psychophysics

• Absolute threshold

• Signal detection theory

• Subliminal

the activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one’s perception, memory, or response.

• Weber’s law

• Difference threshold

• Priming

• Sensory adaptatio

the conversion of one form of energy into another. In sensation, this is the transformation of sights, sounds, and smells into neural impulses our brain can interpret.

• Sensory adaptation

• none

• Transduction

• Weber’s law

the distance from the peak of one light or sound wave to the next peak. Wavelengths in light waves determine the hue (color) and wavelengths in sound waves determine the pitch

• wavelength

• none

• transduction

• Amplitude

the wave’s height. It is measured from the peak of the wave to the trough of the wave. Amplitude measures the intensity of the wave. In light it determines the brightness of the color and in sound it determines the volume.

• Wavelength

• Transduction

• Amplitude

• none

the sense of sight.

• vision

• pupil

• iris

• lens