Sensation and Perception Chelsea Touchtone Marissa Mc Kenna

Sensation and Perception Chelsea Touchtone Marissa Mc. Kenna Riley Johnson

Vocab. Need to Know • • • • Touch • Gate Control Theory • Taste • Smell • Vestibular Sense • Kinesthetic Sense • Absolute Threshold • Subliminal Messages • Weber’s Law • Top Down Processing • Bottom Up Processing • Gestalt Rules • Proximity • Size Consistency • Shape Consistency • Depth Cues http: //quizlet. com/252362/ap-psychology-sensation-perception-flash-cards/ Sensation Difference Threshold Feature Detectors Optic Nerve Visible Light Rods Cones Perception Transduction Cornea Pupil Lens Retina Fovea Blind Spot • Trichromatic Theory • Color Blindness • After Images • Opponent Process Theory • Sound Waves • Amplitude • Frequency • Cochlea • Pitch Theory • Place Theory • Frequency Theory • Conduction Deafness • Nerve Deafness

Key People • • • David Hubel Torsten Wiesel Ernst Weber Gustav Fechner Eleanor Gibson

David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel • Discovered that groups of neurons in the visual cortex respond to different types of visual images. • Visual cortex has feature detectors for vertical lines, curves, motion, and many other features of images.

Ernest Weber • Psychophysics who computed Weber’s Law • For people to perceive a difference, the stimulus must differ by a constant proportion not a constant amount. • Weber’s Law- related to the just noticeable difference, which is the minimum difference in stimulation that a person can detect 50% of the time.

Gustav Fechner • Contributor to Weber’s Law • Some textbooks refer to this law as the Weber. Fechner Law

Eleanor Gibson • Researcher who used the visual cliff experiment to determine when human infants can perceive depth. • Found that an infant old enough to crawl would not crawl over the glass top table inferring they have developed depth perception.

Review • Quiz 1 http: //allpsych. com/tests/psychology/sensa tion_perception. html • Quiz 2 http: //mypages. valdosta. edu/mwhatley/250 0/MC/Sensation. htm • Quiz 3 http: //www. appsychology. com/How. Pass/M C%20 quizes/MCquizeshome. htm

Informative Websites • http: //wchs. woodfordschools. org/apreview/ default. htm#sensation • http: //www. funnelbrain. com/c-891 -pointperson-able-perceive-stimulus. html Podcasts http: //itunes. apple. com/us/podcast/psych 370 -sensation-perception/id 412969681

Crossword Puzzle This crossword will be helpful in your review for this unit • http: //highered. mcgrawhill. com/sites/dl/free/007313368 x/300172/c hapter 4. html

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Podcasts http: //itunes. apple. com/us/podcast/psych 370 -sensation-perception/id 412969681