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| organizing and interpreting sensory info |
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| use senses and nervous system to recieve stimulius |
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| higher level mental processes- perceptions based on memory and expecations |
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| anaylsis that begins with sensory receptors and works up to the brains sensory info |
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| how physial energy relates to phychological experience. MINIMUM STIMULATION TO DETECT SMALL NOICES LIGHT TOUCH TASTE |
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| when we will detect small hits or false alarms. NOTICE A BABY CRY NOT TRAIN GOING By |
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| detect things below our absolute threshhold |
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| invisible word or pic that can sway your answer |
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| noticible differenc- minimum differene person can detect etween 2 stimiuli add 1 once to 50 pounds carrying- you wont notice |
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| dimishing sensityivity to unchanging stumulus. move watch up on your arm. feels wired. then goes away |
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| convert one form of energy to another- brain takes and tranduces into things we can see! |
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| difference from one wavepeak to another |
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| amouth of energy in lightwave- its AMPLITUDE- or height of the |
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| light enters through, protects eye, focuses and bends light |
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| coloring. adgusts and makes dark part bigger or smaller to let light in |
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| to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum % |
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| dimished sensitivity to as a consequence of contstant stimulation |
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| transparent structure behind the pupil that changes shape to help focus images on the retina |
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| the process where the lens changes shape to help ofcus images on the retina |
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| light sensitive contains rods and cones |
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| nearby objects seen better |
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| black white gray. peripheral- when cones dont respond |
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| daylight and well lit- color |
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| optic nere leaves the eye- no receptor cells located tehre |
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| central focal point of retina- around eye cones cluster. |
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| nerve cells in brain that espond to featurs of stimulus like shape angle movement |
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| doing several things at once- color depth. |
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| a rapid, involuntary, oscillatory motion of the eyeball |
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focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people’s conscious experiences of
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| mixture of wavelengths (wavelengths are not usually "pure") |
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| ablility to see in 3d and distance |
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| turn in eyes to focus on same point of interest |
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| differences in 2 images the eyes each reviece |
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relative movement of objects as you move; near objects are seen to move more rapidly than
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| flat when stationary-3d when movieng |
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| object is close it looks bigger |
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as parallel lines recede in the distance, the lines appear to come closer and closer together
to point at horizon |
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| objects overlap and block faraway parts |
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| the study of events and situations as the individual experiences them |
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| Laws of Perceptual Organization |
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the principles identified by Gestalt psychologists that describe the ways in
which the brain groups bits of sensory stimulation into meaningful wholes or patterns |
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| items closer together in space tend to be seen as belonging together |
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| items which look alike tend to be seen as belonging together |
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we tend to see straight lines as continuing straight and curved or angled ones
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| incomplete seems complete |
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| incomplete seems complete |
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| SIMPLICITY (Law of Pragnanz) |
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when we observe a pattern, we perceive it in the most basic,
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| FIGURE GROUND DISTINCTION |
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perceiving the world in terms of a figure embedded in some perceptual
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| links pich with place where cochleas membane is stimulated |
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| theory that the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone- thus enabling us to sence its pitch |
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| spinal cord contains a gate that blocks pain signals or blocks them to the brain. |
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| system for sensing position and movement of individual body parts |
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| compare image from both eyeballs- greater and bigger the disparity the closer the object |
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| eyes converge inward to look at something |
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| interposition and linear perspective- avaiable to either eye or alone |
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| blinking lights are movement |
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| perceieveing objects as unchanging- same lightness, color, shape size, as illumination and retinal images change. see someone from the back |
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| ablity to adjust to arificially displaced |
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| menta predisposition to percieve one thing and not another- picture can be two different things |
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| state of awarness around us |
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| alert wake- unconcious deepsleep |
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| heightened awake alertness |
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| paying attenion to two different tasks |
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| failing to see visible objects when our attenetnion is elsewhere |
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| drifting thoughts mental imagry |
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| weary thoughts during wake state |
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| unaware of self or surroudings |
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| rest for mind and body eyes close- consiousness completely or partially lost |
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| complete loss of conciousness unware of outisde |
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| Altered States of Consciousness - |
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| states of awareness that differ from ones usual waking state |
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| patterns of regular body fluctuation |
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| less than once a day and lasts longer than a day |
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| Electroencephalograph (EEG ) - a |
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device that measures and records electrical activity of the brain (brain
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| fast, low-amplitude brain waves; awake and alert |
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| slower, rhythmic brain waves; relaxed wakefulness |
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| slower brain waves interrupted by irregular, sharply pointed waves known as sleep |
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| (bursts of rapid, high-peaking waves); stage 2 sleep |
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| extremely slow, high-amplitude waves; stages 3 and 4 sleep (deep sleep) |
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| Hypnagogic Hallucinations |
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| wierd thoughts that come to mind right before you fall asleep |
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| twiching or spazing of muscles |
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a stage in the normal sleep cycle during which dreams occur and the body undergoes
marked changes including rapid eye movement, loss of reflexes, and increased pulse rate and brain activity |
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a stage in the normal sleep cycle during which dreams occur and the body undergoes
marked changes including rapid eye movement, loss of reflexes, and increased pulse rate and brain activity |
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| Rapid-Eye-Movement (REM) Sleep |
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the stage of sleep that involves rapid eye movements and that is
most closely associated with periods of dreaming |
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a state of consciousness that occurs during REM sleep and is usually accompanied by vivid visual
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the part of the peripheral nervous system that automatically regulates involuntary
bodily processes, such as breathing, heart rate, and digestion |
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a riddle whose answer is depicted by symbols or pictures that suggest the sounds or give clues to the
meanings of the words or syllables they represent |
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