Psychology Chapter 1 Flashcards

Motor activities such as moving the head or eyes and locomotion through the environment.

The stimulus that a person is attending to at a given point in time.

<p>Processing in which a person constructs a perception by analyzing the information falling on the receptors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The methods of limits, adjustment, and constant stimuli used for measuring thresholds.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How knowledge, memories, and expectations that a person brings to a situation influence his or her perception.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The minimal detectable difference between two stimuli.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the things in our environment that we can potentially perceive at a given time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any information that the perceiver brings to a stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A psychophysical method in which the subject assigns numbers to a stimulus that are proportional to the subject's magnitude of the stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A psychophysical method in which the experimenter or observer adjusts the stimulus intensity continuously until the stimulus is detected.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A psychophysical method in which a number of constant stimuli with different intensities are presented repeatedly in a random order.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A psychophysical method for measuring threshold in which stimuli are presented in alternating ascending and descending order.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Operations that transform the electrical signals within a network of neurons.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conscious sensory experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A sequence of steps leading from the environment to perception of a stimulus, recognition of the stimulus, and action regarding the stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A method of determining the relation between stimuli and perception in which the observer describes what he or she perceives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Analyzing perception by determining how a person's perception is related to physiological processes occurring within the person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A mathematical function of the form $P=KS^n$, where P is perceived magnitude, K is constant, S is the stimulus intensity, and n is an exponent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Analyzing perception by determining how a person's perception is related to stimuli in the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All methods are referred to as this.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The demonstration in which presentation of a 'rat-like' or 'man-like' picture influences an observer's perception of a second, which can be interpreted as a rat or man.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The time between presentation of a stimulus and an observer's or listener's response to the stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ability to place an object in a category that gives meaning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The result when doubling the physical intensity of a stimulus less than doubles the subjective magnitude of the stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In a signal detection experiment, the subjective magnitude of a stimulus above which the participant will indicate that the stimulus is present.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The result when doubling the physical intensity of a stimulus more than doubles the subjective magnitude of the stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A theory stating that the detection of a stimulus depends on the participant's response criterion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A law concerning the relationship between the physical intensity of a stimulus and the perception of the subjective magnitude of the stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Processing that starts with the analysis of the high-level information, such as the knowledge a person brings to a situation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In the senses, the transformation of environmental energy into electrical energy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inability to recognize objects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A procedure in which a person's task is to find a particular element in a display that contains a number of elements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ratio of the difference threshold to the value of standard stimulus in Weber's Law, $DL/S$.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A law stating that the ratio of the difference threshold ($DL$) to the value of stimulus ($S$) is constant.</p> Signup and view all the answers