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What is the definition of sensation?
What is the definition of sensation?
The process in which a sensory stimulus is detected and transmitted to the brain for interpretation.
What is the definition of perception?
What is the definition of perception?
The process in which a sensory stimulus is sorted out and interpreted by the brain.
What is the absolute threshold?
What is the absolute threshold?
The minimal amount of sensory stimulus required for detection 50% of the time.
What is the difference threshold?
What is the difference threshold?
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Which of the following are considered basic senses? (Select all that apply)
Which of the following are considered basic senses? (Select all that apply)
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What are the receptor cells associated with vision?
What are the receptor cells associated with vision?
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What are the main receptor sites for hearing?
What are the main receptor sites for hearing?
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Which receptors are involved in smell and taste?
Which receptors are involved in smell and taste?
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What principle of grouping includes nearby objects being grouped together?
What principle of grouping includes nearby objects being grouped together?
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What does the vestibular sense help with?
What does the vestibular sense help with?
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What are the key methods of processing perception?
What are the key methods of processing perception?
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Study Notes
Sensation and Perception
- Sensation: The process of detecting and transmitting sensory stimuli to the brain for interpretation.
- Perception: The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information in the brain.
- Stimulus: A physical energy that elicits a response in the sensory system.
- Absolute Threshold: The minimum amount of sensory stimulus required for detection, which can be detected 50% of the time.
- Difference Threshold: The smallest detectable difference in a stimulus that can be noticed 50% of the time.
The Sensory Systems
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Vision:
- Receptor cells: Rods (detect light) and cones (detect color).
- Visual pathway: Light enters the eye, passes through the cornea and lens, and is projected onto the retina, where rods and cones are located. Signals are then transmitted through the optic nerve to the brain.
- Structures: Cornea, lens, iris, pupil, retina, optic nerve.
- Concepts: Saturation, afterimage (seeing a color's complementary color after prolonged exposure), color blindness.
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Hearing:
- Receptor cells: Hair cells in the cochlea.
- Auditory pathway: Sound waves enter the ear canal, vibrate the eardrum, and travel through the ossicles (malleus, incus, stapes) in the middle ear to the cochlea in the inner ear. Vibrations stimulate hair cells, and signals are transmitted through the auditory nerve to the brain.
- Structures: Outer ear, middle ear (including ossicles), inner ear (including cochlea).
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Smell and Taste:
- Receptor cells: Olfactory receptors (smell) and taste buds (taste).
- Smell pathway: Odor molecules enter the nose and stimulate olfactory receptors.
- Taste pathway: Food molecules dissolve in saliva and stimulate taste buds.
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Touch:
- Receptor cells: Sensory receptors in the skin.
- Touch pathway: Stimulated receptors transmit signals through the spinal cord to the somatosensory cortex.
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Kinesthetic Sense:
- Receptor cells: Sensory receptors in muscles, joints, and tendons.
- Function: Provides information about body position and movement.
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Vestibular Sense:
- Receptor cells: Hair cells in the semicircular canals of the inner ear.
- Function: Provides information about head rotation, balance, and spatial orientation.
Gestalt Principles of Grouping
- Figure-ground: Distinguishing between foreground and background.
- Similarity: Grouping items that share similar features.
- Closure: Perceiving complete figures even when parts are missing.
- Proximity: Grouping items that are close together.
- Simplicity: Perceiving the simplest interpretation possible.
- Continuity: Perceiving continuous lines or patterns instead of abrupt changes.
Perception: Ways of Perceiving
- Top-down processing: Using prior knowledge and expectations to interpret sensory information.
- Bottom-up processing: Processing sensory information in a step-by-step manner, from the sensory receptors to the brain.
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Constancy: The tendency to perceive objects as unchanging despite changes in sensory input.
- Size constancy: Perceiving the size of an object as consistent regardless of its distance from the observer.
- Shape constancy: Perceiving the shape of an object as consistent regardless of its orientation.
- Brightness constancy: Perceiving the brightness of an object as consistent regardless of changes in lighting.
- Color constancy: Perceiving the color of an object as consistent regardless of changes in lighting.
- Depth perception: The ability to perceive distance and three-dimensional space.
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Visual cues:
- Binocular cues: Require both eyes (e.g., retinal disparity, convergence).
- Monocular cues: Require only one eye (e.g., linear perspective, interposition, relative size, texture gradient, aerial perspective, motion parallax).
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Test your understanding of sensation and perception with this quiz. Explore the mechanics of sensory systems, the concepts of absolute and difference thresholds, and the particulars of the visual pathway. Perfect for students studying psychology or related fields.
