Ap psychology vocab unit 4 five senses

The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment.

• Sensory receptors

• Transduction

• Sensation

• Psychophysics

The sensory nerve endings that respond to stimuli

• Sensation

• Sensory receptors

• Sensory adaptation

• Subliminal

The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enables us to recognize meaningful objects and events.

• Subliminal

• Sensation

• Perception

• Sensory adaptation

The analysis begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information

• Absolute threshold

• Difference threshold

• Top-down processing

• Bottom-up processing

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

• Top-down processing

• Bottom-up processing

• Absolute threshold

• Difference threshold

Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

• Change blindness

• Inattentional blindness

• Signal detection theory

• Selective attention

Failing to notice changes in the environment.

• Inattentional blindness

• Change blindness

• Transduction

• Psychophysics

Conversion of one form of energy into another. In sensation the transforming of stimulus energies such as sights, sounds. and smells. into the neural impulses, our brains can interpret

• Psychophysics

• transduction

• Weber's law

• Signal detection theory

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

• Psychophysics

• Transduction

• Subliminal

• Sensory receptors

The minimum stimulation required for a particular stimulus to be detected is 50% of the time.

• Signal detection theory

• difference threshold

• Absolute threshold

• Sensory receptors