PSY 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sine Wave, Reminiscence Bump, Sense
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Sensaion: detecion of physical energy by sense organs, which then send informaion to the brain: vs. percepion: the brain"s interpretaion of raw data, sensaion = raw data, percepion = understanding the raw data. Five basic senses vs. sixth senses: ive senses: vision, hearing, taste, feeling, smelling. Used to detect simuli: sixth senses: balance, kinesthesia, propriocepion, interocepion. More of sensing moion and locaion of the body. Sensory transducion: the ability to translate physical realiies into neural impulses: diferent sensory receptors to detect diferent simuli. Evidence for top-down processing: gestalt princiiples. Rules governing how we perceive objects as whiles within the overall context. Shape constancy: object is sill viewed as the object even when the shape changes due to posiions/angles. Size constancy: ability to perceive objects as the same size no mater how far away they are. Color constancy: ability to perceive color consistently across diferent levels of lighing: hearing words in sounds:
