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the process of organizing and interpreting sensory
Perception information, enabling us to recognize meaningful
objects and events
Are there really 5 senses? No, there are from 7-12 different senses
neural transduction receptors, transduction and neural response
activation of sensory receptors due to a stimulus in
Sensation
the environment (physical stimulus---->neural signal)
internal experience that everyone has of the external
Phenomenology
world around them
Aristotle said there were five senses - smell, sight,
Aristotle and the Five
touch, taste, and hearing - but science suggests there
senses
are many more than that
showed that light, like waves, could be diffracted,
Thomas Young
color recptors
Johannes Mueller doctrine of specific nerve energies (distinct senses)
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perception is constructed from both senses and
Von Helmholtz cognitive processes, unconscious inference, three
basic color receptors
colors are perceived through 2 pairs of opposing
Hering
colors (four primary colors, not three)
the just noticeable difference between two stimuli is
Weber's Law based on a proportion of the original stimulus rather
than on a fixed amount of difference
father of psychophysics, the study of the relation
Fechner between physical stimuli and the perception they
elicit
Fechner's Law sensation is a logarithmic function of physical intensity
Gestalt Psychology the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
elements close to one another tend to be perceived
Law of Proximity (Gestalt)
as a unit
Law of Common Fate visual elements that move in the same speed and/or
(Gestalt) direction are parts of a single stimulus
we tend to see complete figures even when part of
law of closure (gestalt)
the information is missing
Law of Similarity (Gestalt) objects that are similar tend to be grouped together
Law of Good Continuation elements that appear to follow the same pathway
(Gestalt) tend to be grouped together
Gibson and Direct sensation is perception, what you see is what you get
Perception
a perspective on understanding cognition that divides
Information Processing
thinking into specific steps and component processes
Approach
(LIKE A COMPUTER)
Describes the problem the system is trying to solve
computational approach and the constraints it uses in order to solve it, most
abstract
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COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
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Terms in this set (134)
the process of organizing and interpreting sensory
Perception information, enabling us to recognize meaningful
objects and events
Are there really 5 senses? No, there are from 7-12 different senses
neural transduction receptors, transduction and neural response
activation of sensory receptors due to a stimulus in
Sensation
the environment (physical stimulus---->neural signal)
internal experience that everyone has of the external
Phenomenology
world around them
Aristotle said there were five senses - smell, sight,
Aristotle and the Five
touch, taste, and hearing - but science suggests there
senses
are many more than that
showed that light, like waves, could be diffracted,
Thomas Young
color recptors
Johannes Mueller doctrine of specific nerve energies (distinct senses)
https://quizlet.com/1053023519/psyc-230-uiuc-exam-1-2025-update-comprehensive-questions-and-verified-answers-complete-solutions-guaranteed-… 1/11
, 6/10/25, 12:12 PM PSYC 230 UIUC EXAM 1 2025 UPDATE| COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS (COMPLETE SOLUTION…
perception is constructed from both senses and
Von Helmholtz cognitive processes, unconscious inference, three
basic color receptors
colors are perceived through 2 pairs of opposing
Hering
colors (four primary colors, not three)
the just noticeable difference between two stimuli is
Weber's Law based on a proportion of the original stimulus rather
than on a fixed amount of difference
father of psychophysics, the study of the relation
Fechner between physical stimuli and the perception they
elicit
Fechner's Law sensation is a logarithmic function of physical intensity
Gestalt Psychology the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
elements close to one another tend to be perceived
Law of Proximity (Gestalt)
as a unit
Law of Common Fate visual elements that move in the same speed and/or
(Gestalt) direction are parts of a single stimulus
we tend to see complete figures even when part of
law of closure (gestalt)
the information is missing
Law of Similarity (Gestalt) objects that are similar tend to be grouped together
Law of Good Continuation elements that appear to follow the same pathway
(Gestalt) tend to be grouped together
Gibson and Direct sensation is perception, what you see is what you get
Perception
a perspective on understanding cognition that divides
Information Processing
thinking into specific steps and component processes
Approach
(LIKE A COMPUTER)
Describes the problem the system is trying to solve
computational approach and the constraints it uses in order to solve it, most
abstract
https://quizlet.com/1053023519/psyc-230-uiuc-exam-1-2025-update-comprehensive-questions-and-verified-answers-complete-solutions-guaranteed-… 2/11
