Sensation
Perception
The Senses
Gestalt Principals
Terms
100
Allows us to understand reality.
What is Sensation?
100
When sensory information is organized into meaningful experiences.
What is Perception?
100
The 5 sense organs.
What are eyes, ears, tongue, nose and skin?
100
See things in the easiest most organized manner.
What is Simplicity?
100
Any aspect of change in the environment to which an organism responds.
What is a Stimulus?
200
Weakest amount of a stimulus for a person to sense something at all at least half of the time.
What is Absolute Threshold?
200
Learning to perceive is influenced by these 3 things.
What are needs, beliefs and expectations?
200
In hearing, the vibrations in the air are known as.
What are Sound Waves?
200
Tendency to group together those things that are close to each other?
What is Proximity
200
Filling in the gaps based on past experiences with our senses.
What is Perceptual Inference?
300
Eyes adjusting when going into a dark room is an example of this.
What is Sensory Adaptation?
300
The ability to see distance and see 3-D.
What is Depth Perception?
300
The chemical senses.
What are smell and taste?
300
Seeing smooth continuous patterns.
What is Continuity?
300
The tendency to perceive certain objects in the same way regardless of changing angle, distance or lighting.
What is Constancy?
400
A sensation combined with other sensations and this are said to yield a perception.
What is past experience?
400
This type of perception is highly debated as to its existence.
What is Extrasensory perception?
400
This nerve carries impulses from the inner ear to the brain to give us the perception of sound.
What is the Auditory Nerve?
400
See a familiar pattern or shape with missing parts.
What is Closure?
400
Incorrect perceptions.
What are Illusions?
500
The 4 ways a stimulus can be measured.
What are size, duration, intensity and wavelength?
500
This type of perception allows us to discriminate a figure and its background.
What is figure-ground perception?
500
The nerve that carries smell impulses from the nose to the brain.
What is the Olfactory Nerve?
500
Grouping of elements that are alike in appearance.
What is Similarity?
500
This carries neuronal impulse from the retina to the occipital lobe of the brain.
What is the Optic Nerve?
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