Psych 310 Sensation and Perception Exam questions and answers
Psych 310 Sensation and Perception Exam questions and answers Sensation - Transduction of external energy to produce an experience Book definition: The registration of physical stimuli on sensory receptors Perception - Making judgments about the world on the basis of sensory experience Book definition: The process of creating conscious perceptual experience from sensory input Cognition - Thinking about meaning Top down - a process whereby our existing knowledge of objects influence how we perceive them Bottom up - a process whereby physical stimuli influence how we perceive them Psychophysics - Measuring the relationship between physical intensities and psychological
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