SENSATION
The automanic activation of the senses.
What is stimulation?
This is when stimuli remain constant and sensitivity decreases over time.
What is sensory adaptation?
Process in which consciousness is focused on particular stimuli.
What is Attention?
The whole experience is greater than the sumof the individual parts.
What is Gestalt?
The awareness of things that are both inside and outside ourselves.
What is consciousness?
The weakest amount of a stimulation one can sense.
What is the Absolute Threshold?
The ability to see depth and distance.
What is depth perception?
Processing which occurs from your senses to your brain.
What is bottom-up processing?
Processing which comes from your prior knowledge/expectations
What is Top-down processing?
These are ideas that are not in your awareness now but can be recalled or remembered.
What is Preconscious?
A method of distinguishing sensory stimuli that takes into account a stimulus's strength plus variable elements.
What is signal detection?
A minimum amount of difference that can be detected between two stimuli?
What is the difference threshold?
This law of grouping states that we group things on the basis of how near they are to one another.
What is Proximity?
This law of perceptual organization states that we fill in missing information from the array by closing in gaps.
What is Closure?
When a person dozes off to sleep, they experience this state of consciousness.
What is an altered state?
The minimum amount of difference that can be detected between two stimuli.
What is the Difference threshold?
This sense helps us keep our balance and know our body position.
What is vestibular?
These are depth cues provided by both eyes.
What are binocular cues?
Thes are depth cues provided by only one eye.
What are monocular cues?
The level at which many basic biological functions occur, such as breathing.
What is Non-conscious?
This type of processing comes from our senses.
What is bottom up processing?
This type of processing comes from that which we already know.
What is top-down processing?
The Gestalt principle that organizes visual information into a main object and a background.
What is figure-ground?
This rule of perception states that when you see a dotted outline of a square and your brain fills in the gaps to perceive a full square.
What is closure?
According to Freud, people have this state of mind which is not available to awareness under most circumstances.
What is Unconscious?