Sensation
Brain Parts
Perception
Sensation or Perception
Potpourri
100
Any aspect of or change in the environment to which an organism responds
What is a stimulus
100
Area primarily associated with vision
What is the Occipital Love
100
the experience that comes from organizing bits and pieces of information into meaningful wholes
What is Gestalt
100
Our first awareness of outside stimulus
What is sensation
100
the activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one’s perception, memory, or response. ...it's a rabbit...no, its a duck...
What is priming
200
the principle that the larger or stronger a stimulus, the larger the change required for an observer to notice a difference
What is Weber's Law
200
This area sends signals between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Some people have had it intentional severed to lessen their seizures.
What the corpus callosum
200
When there is a familiar object or shape that has missing parts we fill in the spaces
What is closure
200
when our perception is guided by our previous knowledge or experiences and beliefs (the brain :)
What is top-down processing
200
failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere
What is inattentional blindness
300
The weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half the time
What is an absolute threshold
300
This is associated with movement.
What the motor cortex
300
Grouping objects that are similar and close
What is proximity
300
Our ability to process many aspects of a problem at the same time...we see the colour of the bird, its shape, its depth, its motion.
What is parallel processing
300
the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus.
What is selective attention?
400
responding to changes in the environment becuase our senses have the ability to adapt to a contant level of stimulation.
What is sensory adaptation
400
These are associated with sleep and arousal...not the same as what you would do with your grandmother's jewelry to get a little cash :)
What are the pons
400
One of two binocular depth cues Hint: when you have an eye exam, this happens when you follow the tip of the Doctor's pen as he approaches your nose. Or, this is what happens because each eye sees the image slightly different
What is Convergence - the process by which your eyes turn inward to look Retinal disparity - the differences between the images stimulating each eye
400
when we experienced diminished sensitivity because of continued exposure to a stimulus...such as the smell of our home.
What is sensory adaptation
400
analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain’s integration of sensory information.
What is bottom up processing
500
the amount of stimulus energy that is below a person's absolute threshold and therefore the person is not consciously aware of it
What is Subliminal Stimulus
500
This area is associated with language production...enabling you to speak your language (if this area was damaged, you might speak "broken" English)
What Broca's Area
500
Three monocular depth cues that 1)farther away the less detail 2) overlappping of images 3)parallel lines converge when stretched into the distance
What is 1) texture-density gradient 2) interposition 3)linear perspective
500
the minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection.
What is difference threshold
500
This is the area of the brain which is responsible for hearing.
What is the temporal lobe
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