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Chapter 4Sensation and Reality
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Psychophysics
• Study of relationship between physical stimuli and sensations they evoke in a human observer
• Absolute threshold: Minimum amount of physical energy necessary to produce a sensation
• Subliminal perception: Perception of a stimulus below the threshold for conscious recognition
• Difference threshold: A change in stimulus intensity that is detectable to an observer
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Just Noticeable Difference (JND)
• Any noticeable difference in a stimulus
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Weber’s Law
• The amount of change needed to produce a constant JND is a constant proportion of the original stimulus intensity
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General Properties of Sensory Systems
• Perceptual features: Basic stimulus patterns• Sensory coding: Converting important
features of the world into messages understood by the brain
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Sensation and Perception
• Sensation: Information arriving from sense organs (eye, ear, etc.)
• Perception: Mental process of organizing sensations into meaningful patterns
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p. 120
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Vision: The Key Sense
• Visible spectrum: Narrow spread of the electromagnetic spectrum to which the eyes respond
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Parts of the Eye
• Lens: Structure in the eye that focuses light rays
• Photoreceptors: Light-sensitive cells in the eye
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More Parts of the Eye
• Retina: Light-sensitive layer of cells in the back of the eye– Easily damaged from excessive exposure
to light (staring at an eclipse) • Cornea: Transparent membrane covering the
front of the eye; bends light rays inward
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Accommodation
• Changes in the shape of the lens of the eye
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Fig. 4-3, p. 123
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Fig. 4-1, p. 122
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Fig. 4-4, p. 124
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Video: Anatomy of the Eye: Virtual Reality
After clicking ‘Play Video’ use your mouse to manipulate this active figure.
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Vision Problems
• Hyperopia: Difficulty focusing nearby objects (farsightedness)
• Myopia: Difficulty focusing distant objects (nearsightedness)
• Astigmatism: Corneal, or lens defect that causes some areas of vision to be out of focus; relatively common
• Presbyopia: Farsightedness caused by aging
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Fig. 4-5, p. 124
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Light Control
• Iris: Colored circular muscle that controls amount of light entering the eye
• Pupil: Opening at the front of the eye through which light passes
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Light Vision
• Cones: Visual receptors for colors and bright light (daylight); 5 million in each eye
• Rods: Visual receptors for dim light; only produce black and white; about 120 million total
• Blind spot: Area of the retina lacking visual receptors
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Fig. 4-6, p. 125
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Fig. 4-7, p. 125
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Fig. 4-8, p. 126
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More on Light Control
• Visual acuity: Sharpness of visual perception• Fovea: Area at the center of the retina
containing only cones (50,000)• Peripheral vision: Vision at edges of visual
field; side vision – Many superstar athletes have excellent
peripheral vision• Tunnel vision: Loss of peripheral vision
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Fig. 4-9, p. 126
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Fig. 4-11, p. 127
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Video: Transmission of Light through the Eye
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Color Vision
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Trichromatic Theory
• Color vision theory that states we have three cone types: red, green, blue– Other colors produced by a combination of
these
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Opponent Process Theory
• Color vision theory based on three “systems”: red or green, blue or yellow, black or white– Exciting one color in a pair (red) blocks the
excitation in the other member of the pair (green)
– Afterimage: Visual sensation that remains after stimulus is removed (seeing flashbulb after the picture has been taken)
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Fig. 4-12, p. 128
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Fig. 4-13, p. 128
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Simultaneous Color Contrast
• Changes in perceived hue that occur when a colored stimulus is displayed on backgrounds of various colors
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Color Blindness
• Color blindness: Inability to perceive colors; lacks cones or has malfunctioning cones– Total color blindness is rare
• Color weakness: Inability to distinguish some colors– Red-green is most common; much more
common among men than women– Recessive, sex-linked trait on X
chromosome
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Ishihara Test
• Test for color blindness and color weakness
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Fig. 4-16a, p. 129
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Fig. 4-16b, p. 129
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Fig. 4-16c, p. 129
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Fig. 4-17, p. 130
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Dark Adaptation
• Increased retinal sensitivity to light after entering the dark; similar to going from daylight into a dark movie theater
• Rhodopsin: Light-sensitive pigment in the rods; involved with night vision
• Night blindness: Blindness under low-light conditions; hazardous for driving at night
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Fig. 4-18, p. 131
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Hearing
• Sound waves: Rhythmic movement of air molecules
• Pitch: Higher or lower tone of a sound• Loudness: Sound intensity
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Fig. 4-19, p. 132
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Hearing: Parts of the Ear
• Pinna: Visible, external part of the ear• Tympanic membrane: Eardrum• Auditory ossicles: Three small bones that
vibrate; link eardrum with the cochlea– Malleus (hammer)– Incus (anvil)– Stapes (stirrup)
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Fig. 4-20, p. 133
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Hearing: Parts of the Ear (cont)
• Cochlea: Snail-shaped organ that makes up inner ear
• Hair cells: Receptor cells within cochlea that transduce vibrations into nerve impulses
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Fig. 4-21, p. 134
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Fig. 4-22, p. 134
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How Do We Detect Higher and Lower Sounds?
• Frequency theory: As pitch rises, nerve impulses of a corresponding frequency are fed into the auditory nerve
• Place theory: Higher and lower tones excite specific areas of the cochlea
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Conduction Hearing Loss
• Poor transfer of sounds from tympanic membrane to inner ear– Compensate with amplifier (hearing aid)
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Sensorineural Hearing Loss
• Caused by damage to hair cells or auditory nerve– Hearing aids little or no help in these cases– Cochlear implant: Electronic device that
stimulates auditory nerves directly
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Fig. 4-24, p. 135
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Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
• Damage caused by exposing hair cells to excessively loud sounds– Typical at rock concerts– By age 65, more than 40% of hair cells are
gone
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Fig. 4-23, p. 134
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Fig. 4-25, p. 135
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Smell
• Olfaction: Sense of smell• Dysosmia: Loss or impairment of sense of
smell• Lock-and-key theory: Odors are related to
shapes of chemicals and molecules• Pheromones: Airborne chemical signal
– Vomeronasal organ: Sense organ for pheromones
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Gustation
• Sense of taste– Four taste sensations: sweet, salt, sour,
bitter – Most sensitive to bitter, less to sour, less to
salt, least sensitive to sweet– Umami: Possible fifth taste sensation;
brothy taste
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Taste Buds
• Taste-receptor cells
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Fig. 4-26, p. 136
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Fig. 4-27, p. 138
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Somesthetic Senses
• Sensations produced by skin, muscles, joints, viscera, and organs of balance
• Skin senses (touch): Light touch, pressure, pain, cold, warmth
• Kinesthetic: Detect body position and movement• Vestibular: Balance, acceleration, and position in
space
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Skin Receptors
• Sensory organs for touch, pressure, pain, cold, and warmth
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Pain
• Visceral pain: Pain originating in internal organs
• Referred pain: Pain felt in one part of the body, but coming from another
• Somatic pain: Sharp, bright, fast; comes from skin, joints, muscles, tendons
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Types of Pain
• Warning system: Pain carried by large nerve fibers; sharp, bright, fast pain that tells you body damage may be occurring (e.g., knife cut)
• Reminding system: Small nerve fibers; slower, nagging, aching, widespread; gets worse if stimulus is repeated; reminds brain that body has been injured
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Dynamic Touch
• Touch experienced when the body is in motion; a combination of sensations from skin receptors, muscles, and joints
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Fig. 4-29, p. 140
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Vestibular System
• Otolith organs: Sensitive to movement, acceleration, and gravity
• Semicircular canals: Fluid-filled tubes in ears that are sensory organs for balance
• Crista: “Float” that detects movement in semicircular canals
• Ampulla: A wider part of the canal
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Fig. 4-30, p. 140
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Fig. 4-31, p. 141
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Vestibular System and Motion Sickness
• Motion sickness is directly related to vestibular system
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Sensory Conflict Theory
• Motion sickness results from a mismatch between information from vision, vestibular system, and kinesthesis– After spinning and stopping, fluid in
semicircular canals is still spinning, but head is not
– Mismatch leads to sickness• Medications, relaxation, and lying down might
help
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Adaptation, Attention, and Sensory Gating
• Sensory adaptation: When sensory receptors respond less to unchanging stimuli
• Selective attention: Voluntarily focusing on a specific sensory input
• Sensory gating: Facilitating or blocking sensory messages in the spinal cord
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Gate Control Theory of Pain
• Gate control theory: Pain messages from different nerve fibers pass through the same “neural” gate in the spinal cord.– If gate is closed by one pain message,
other messages may not be able to pass through
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Fig. 4-33, p. 143
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Beta-endorphin
• Natural pain-killing brain chemical similar to morphine
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Phantom Limb
• Missing limb feels like it is present, like always, before amputation or accident
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Controlling Pain
• Fear, or high levels of anxiety, almost always increase pain
• If you can regulate a painful stimulus, you have control over it
• Distraction can also significantly reduce pain• The interpretation you give a stimulus also
affects pain
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Coping With Pain
• Prepared childbirth training: Promotes birth with a minimal amount of drugs or painkillers
• Counterirritation: Using mild pain to block more intense or long-lasting pain