Chapter 4
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Sensation and Perception
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I. Sensory ProcessesAll incoming messages must be interpreted
by the brainSensation is not just physical, it is also
psychologicalWe create meaning from what we know
Sensation – activation of our senses
Perception – process of understanding sensation
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I. Sensory ProcessesWhat affects how we sense and perceive stimuli:
How long we are exposed (ex: socks)What we are focused on (voluntary v. involuntary cocktail-party
phenomenon)Sensation and perception happen through a
process called: TRANSCUDTION TRANSCUDTION:
signals transformed into neural impulses.sent to thalamus firstThalamus sends messages to correct part of the
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II. SensationVisionLight is reflected off objects and gathered by the
eyeWavelengths of light determine the hue we see
Longer wavelengths = infrared waves, microwaves, radio waves
Shorter wavelengths = ultraviolet waves, x-rays
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II. SensationA. Structure of the eye
Cornea: clear covering of the eyeIris: colored, circular muscle – contracts/expands to
control lightPupil: opening in the eye (like shutter of a camera)Lens: part of the eye that focuses an object on the
back of the eye, focuses the light ***give me a finger***image is projected upside down
Retina: like a screen, contains neuron receptors for light
Optic Nerve (Blind spot): part of the retina where the optic nerve exits – no receptors for light (p. 4)
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II. SensationReceptors in the Retina
Cones – first layer of cells, activated by light, colorRods – respond to black and white
More Rods than cones Peripheral **colored pencils**
Color VisionTrichromatic theory
Red, green, blueOpponent process theory
Red/green Yellow/blue Black/white Fatigue of sensors p. 100
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II. SensationColor defects, Color blindness
Red/green colorblindness most common (7-10% men)Color blind test
Feature detectorsWidth, depth, shape, curves, vertical lines,
motion, and many othersAfterimage – firing of cones not used after
viewing something in order to bring the visual system back in balance
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II. SensationB. Hearing – auditory sense, uses sound waves
Sound waves created by vibrationsTransduction to neural messagesAmplitude – determines loudnessFrequency – determines pitch
Characteristics of SoundPitch – how high or low a sound isTimbre – complexity of sound (voices, instruments,
sirens)Intensity (decibels) – how loud more than 130 decibels = painful (p. 101)
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II. SensationStructure of the Ear
Ear canal – auditory canal (external structure)Ear drum – skin stretched over entrance to ear, thin
membrane; vibrates to sound, connected to 3 bones Hammer Anvil Stirrup
Cochlea – snail shaped, fluidHair cells – receptor cells for hearing, when fluid
moves, hair cells move, tuned to different frequencies, lost with age
Auditory Nerve – sense message to brainDeafness – conduction v. nerve deafness
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II. SensationC. Cutaneous Senses- touch
Cutaneous receptors respond to pressure, temp, pain
Receptors more sensitive in some parts of the body than others
All touch senses go to spinal cord Purpose of pain: defense mechanism Interpretation of pain: PLEASURE v. PAIN,
depending on intensity, environment, circumstance (psychological)
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WHO????loves ice creamenjoys eating broccolihates spicy, hot, or strongly flavored foodshas a hard time deciding what to order at a
restaurantalways asks for sauces and dressings on the sidedives right into their food after being servedcarefully tastes each food on their plateadds a lot of saltHas ever been called a picky eater
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Let’s answer the following:How did holding your nose and smelling mint
affect the flavor of the food sample?
What are some reasons why it would be important to distinguish different tastes?
Genes are only one factor that determine your food preferences. What else might affect food preferences?
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II. SensationSmell (olfaction)
ChemicalsStrongly linked to memory (amygdala, emotion,
and hippocampus, memory area, in brain) Do not go to thalamus first, go directly to
emotion/memory area in brainMechanisms of smell
Cilia – tiny hairs receive odor molecules, send to olfactory bulbs
Olfactory bulbs - generate code that brain interprets
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II. SensationPHEROMONESA study involving human subjects, conducted in Switzerland
by Claus Wedekind, consisted of 44 males and 49 females. The men were given t-shirts and instructed to wear the T-shirts to bed for two consecutive nights to ensure that the T-shirts were totally saturated with pheromones. They were also given scentless soap and other toiletries and told to use them exclusively. At the end of the experiment, the t-shirts were put into a box and rated, on the basis of smell, by women. A number of boxes were filled with clean t-shirts to act as a control.
The women were then given the boxes and asked to rate them according to their reaction to the different scents, that is whether they found them pleasant or unpleasant. The results found that the women preferred the scents of the T-shirts worn by men with a dissimilar MSC gene. Many of the women commented that the scents reminded them of boyfriends or husbands.
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II. SensationTaste – chemical response
Tastebuds -Bumps on your tongue Signals go down into tongue and connect to brain Taste buds are all over tongue, insides of cheeks,
and roof of the mouth4 types of tastes
Sweet – vital for energy, desire for sweet is built in Salty – keeps body chemistry in balance Sour – food gone wild (bad…old) Bitter – detect poison
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II. PerceptionThe difference between sensation and
perception =Sensation is like getting data from
environmentPerception is interpreting that date
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II. Perception Top-down processing:
I _ope yo_ _ad a g_eat w__ken_.
use background knowledge to fill in the gaps
Schemas – mental representations of how we expect the world to be (from our experiences)
Perceptual Set – Predisposition to perceive something in a certain way.
EXAMPLE: Finding objects in clouds
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II. PerceptionBottom-up processing
Aka feature analysisInstead of using our experience to perceive an
object – we use only the characteristics of the object to build a perceptoin
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II. PerceptionA. Perceptual
Constancies – our ability to maintain a constant perception of an object despite changes in angle, lighting, etc…
a) Size - close=larger image on retina, far away = small image
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II. PerceptionA. Constancies
a) Size – keep things the same sizeb) Color – knowing an object is the same color
regardless of environment (lighting) c) Brightness – keeps brightness of an object
constant d) Shape – objects viewed from different angles, but
we know shape remains constant (coffee mug)e) Space – ability to keep objects in the environment
steady a) Self-motionb) Object-motion
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II. PerceptionB. Depth perception
a) Visual Cliff - experiment, proof of depth perception in early years
b) Binocular disparity – eyes see objects at different angles, when brought together, bring a sense of depth
a) With objects that are closer our eyes come together more, brain can sense muscle movement in eyes that bring them together, helps interpret that objects are closer
c) Visual Texture – depth perception based on how rough or smooth objects appear
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II. PerceptionC. Perceptual Organization = Gestalt Rules
1. Gestalt Rules – helps give us the “big picture”Proximity -
Similarity -
Continuity -
Closure -
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II. PerceptionIllusions
Muller-Lyer
Reversible figure -
Subliminal perception – stimulation presented below the level of consciousness
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II. PerceptionPsychology in your life
Do you have ESP? – Ganzfeld procedure Telepathy –Reading someone’s mind Clairvoyance – seeing or knowing something
without being there, knowing when/what is happening at the moment something happens
Premonition or Precognition – Predicting the future Pscychokinesis – influence over/moment of an
object Sixth sense
Full mull mental hospitals
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Most people think this is a trick, and that the shapes aren't actually the same in each image. Not so!
The illusion lies in the fact that the red and green triangles appear to be similar. They are not. The green one is 1 square taller than the red. To be similar, it would need to be 7·5 squares long - it's actually 8! This leads to a shallower gradient on its sloping side:
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All of the lines are straight!
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Lock your eyes on the black spot. Keep them there for 20-30 seconds. What do you notice?Due to the large expanse of white around the circles, once again our peripheral vision is interpolated by the brain. The black dot is rigidly defined, whereas everything else fades away to white. After a while, the brain forgets that a series of shaded circles exist, and fills in the information gaps with pure white.
In the same diagram on the right, it is impossible to achieve this, as no white surround is present. Also, the outside edge of the circle itself is now precisely defined by the edge with the
background.
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How many horses do you see?
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Concentrate on the center
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Concentrate on the four vertical dots in the middle of the image below for 2 minutes.
Now, let your eyes slowly roll up a white wall into the ceiling. You'll see a circle of light. Keep staring at the circle...
What do you see?
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http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/motion-e.htmlhttp://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.htmlhttp://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/color2e.htmlhttp://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.htmlhttp://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/saishin-e.html http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://emergent.unpythonic.net/files/01131390746-two-optical-illusions/
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http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/scitech/2010/02/20/mind-bending-optical-illusions?slide=5
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