1.Sensation (4): Process where sensory receptors and nervous systems
take in stimulus from environment
2.Perception (4): Process of organizing and interpreting sensory info
letting us remember/recognize meaningful things
3.Bottom-Up Processing (4): Analysis that begins with basic senses
and then works up to brain's interpretation
4.Top-Down Processing (4): Where we process info with higher
thinking. We construct perceptions based on experience and
expectations
5.Selective Attention (4): When you focus on one particular thing/stimuli
6.Inattentional Blindness (4): When we can't see visible objects
because our attention is elsewhere
7.Change Blindness (4): Failing to notice changes in environment
8.Psychophysics (4): Study of relationships between the physical
characteristics of stimuli (e.g. intensity and our psychological
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, experience of them)
9.Absolute Threshold (4): Minimum stimulation needed to detect a
particular stim- ulus 50% of the time
10.Signal Detection Theory (4): Theory predicting how and when we
detect the presence of a faint stimulus amid background stimulation.
Assumes that there's no absolute threshold
11.Subliminal (4): Hidden from our consciousness; below absolute
threshold
12.Priming (4): Unconscious associations
13.Difference Threshold (4): Minimum difference between two stimuli
required for detection. 50% of the time it's a just noticeable difference
14.Weber's Law (4): Principle that, to be perceived as different, two
stimuli must differ by a constant percentage
15.Sensory Adaptation (4): Diminished sensitivity as a consequence of
constant stimulation
16.Transduction (4): Conversion of one form of energy to another. In
sensation, it's transforming stimulus energy (sights, sounds, smells) into
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