M3L1

failure to detect stimuli that are in plain sight when our attention is focused elsewhere

• Difference threshold
• Absolute threshold
• Selective attention
• inattentional blindness

the smallest change in the intensity of a stimulus that we can detect

• Sensation
• Just Noticeable Difference (JND)
• Absolute threshold
• Transduction

A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react

• Selective Attention
• Perception
• Stimulus
• Sensation

the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time

• Transduction
• Absolute threshold
• Difference threshold
• Sensory adaptation

analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration ofsensory information

• Selective attention
• Bottom-up processing
• Sensory adaptation
• Top-down processing

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

• Top-down processing
• Bottom-up processing
• Transduction
• Sensory adaptation

The process of selecting and interpreting information from the environment (sensory information), enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events.

• Sensory Adaptation

• Perception

• Sensation

• Transduction

diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation

• Absolute threshold
• Selective attention
• Sensory Adaptation
• Subliminal Stimuli

our ability to focus on just a particular stimulus among the many that are being received.

• Selective attention
• Difference threshold
• Absolute threshold
• inattentional blindness

Stimuli below absolute threshold of sensation

• Subliminal Stimuli
• Selective attention
• Transduction
• Sensory Adaptation