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Chapter 5Chapter 5SensationSensation
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The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment.
sensation
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The theory of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events.
perception
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Analysis that begins with the sense receptors and works up to the brain’s integration of sensory information.
Bottom-up processing
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Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations
Top-down processing
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The study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli and our psychological experience of them.
psychophysics
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The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time.
absolute threshold
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A theory predicting how and when we detect the presence of a faint stimulus (signal) amid background stimulus (noise). Detection depends partly on experience, expectation, motivation, and level of fatigue.
signal detection theory
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Below one’s absolute threshold for conscious awareness
subliminal
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The activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one’s perception, memory, or response.
priming
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The minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50% of the time.
We experience it as a just noticeable difference or jnd.
difference threshold
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Principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage (rather than a constant amount).
Weber’s Law
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Diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation.
sensory adaptation
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Conversion of one form of energy into another. In sensation, the transforming of stimulus energies, such as sights, sounds, and smells, into neural impulses our brains can interpret.
transduction
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The distance from the peak of one light or sound wave to the peak of the next.
wavelength
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The dimension of color that is determined by the wavelength of light what we know as color names (blue, green, etc.)
hue
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The amount of energy in a light or sound wave, which we perceive as brightness or loudness, as determined by the wave’s amplitude.
intensity
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The adjustable opening in the center of the eye through which light enters.
pupil
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A ring of muscle tissue that forms the colored part of the eye around the pupil and controls the size of the pupil opening.
iris
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The transparent structure behind the pupil that changes shape to help focus images on the retina.
lens
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The process by which the eye’s lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina.
accommodation
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The light-sensitive inner surface of the eye, containing the receptor rods and cones, plus layers of neurons that form the beginning visual info processing (the optic nerve).
retina
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The sharpness of vision.
acuity
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A condition in which nearby objects are seen more clearly than distant objects, because distant objects focus in front of the retina.
nearsightedness
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A condition in which far away objects are seen more clearly than near objects, because the image of near objects are focused behind the retina.
farsightedness
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Retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray; necessary for peripheral and twilight vision, when cones don’t respond.
rods
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Retinal receptor cells that are concentrated near the center of the retina in the fovea and that function in daylight or in well-lit conditions. They detect fine detail and give rise to color sensations.
cones
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The nerve that carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain.
optic nerve
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The point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye. Because there are not rods or cones in this area, there is no vision here.
blind spot
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The central focus point in the retina. It contains only cones; therefore, images focused on it are the clearest.
fovea
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Nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle, or movement.
feature detectors
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The processing of several aspects of a problem simultaneously; the brain’s natural mode of information processing for many functions, including vision.
parallel processing
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The theory that the retina contains three different color receptors—one most sensitive to red, one to green, one to blue –which when stimulated in combination can produce the perception of any color.
Young-Helmholtz trichromatic (3-color) theory
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The theory that opposing retinal processes (red-green, yellow-blue, and white-black) enable color vision. (For example: some cells are stimulated by green and inhibited by red; others are stimulated by red and inhibited by green).
opponent-process theory
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Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color even if changing illumination alters the wavelengths reflected by the object.
color constancy
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The sense or act of hearing.
audition
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The number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time (for example, per second).
frequency
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A tone’s experienced highness or lowness; depends of frequency.
pitch
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The chamber between the eardrum and cochlea containing three tiny bones (hammer, anvil, and stirrup) that concentrate the eardrum’s vibrations on the cochlea’s oval window.
middle ear
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A coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear through which sound waves trigger nerve impulses (transduction takes place).
cochlea
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The innermost part of the ear, containing the cochlea, semicircular canals, and vestibular sacs.
inner ear
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In hearing, the theory that links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea’s membrane is stimulated.
place theory
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In hearing, the theory that the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone, thus enabling us to sense its pitch.
frequency theory
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Hearing loss caused by damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea.
conduction hearing loss
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Hearing loss caused by damage to the cochlea’s receptor cells or to the auditory nerves; also called nerve deafness.
sensorineural hearing loss
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A device for converting sounds into electrical signals and stimulating the auditory nerve through electrodes threaded into the cochlea.
cochlear implant
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The theory that maintains that the spinal cord contains a neurological “gate” that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain. The “gate” is opened by the activity of pain signals traveling up small nerve fibers and is closed by activity in larger fibers or by information coming from the brain.
gate-control theory
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The principle that one sense may influence another, as when the smell of food influences its taste.
sensory interaction
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The system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts.
kinesthesis
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The sense of the body movement and position, including the sense of balance.
vestibular sense