AP Psychology Unit 3 Sensation & Perception

Depth cues, such as convergence, that depend on the use of two eyes.

• Gestalt Cue

• Binocular Cue

• Monocular Cue

• Subliminal Cue

 Focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus and blocking out all other stimuli.

• Parallel Processing

• Absolute Threshold

• Weber's Law

• Selective attention

 The system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts.

• Kinesthesis

• Vestibular Sense

• Place Theory

• Haptic Sense

 Retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray and that work best in dim light.

• Bipolar Cells

• Feature Detectors

• Rods

• Cones

Perceiving objects as unchanging, even as illumination and retinal images change

• Perceptual Set

• Perceptual Adaptation

• Perceptual Constancy

• Sensory Adaptation

Diminishing sensitivity to a constant, unchanging stimulus.

• Perceptual Adaptation

• Sensory Adaptation

• Selective Attention

• Signal Detection Theory

Theory that links the pitch we hear to the rate of the cochlea’s hair cell vibrations.

• Frequency theory

• Place Theory

• Opponent Process Theory

• Gate Control theory

Principle that one sense may influence another.

• Parallel Processing

• Signal Detection Theory

• Extrasensory Perception

• Sensory Interaction

The minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50% of them time.

• Absolute Threshold

• Difference Threshold

• Subliminal Threshold

• Weber's Law

A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.

• Selective attention

• Perceptual Set

• Perceptual adaptation

• Habituation