Psychology - 5 senses

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Sense of touch

Relies on sensory receptor cells

Environment around us and from inside our body

Relayed along sensory neurons in parietal lobes

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Skin has these types of receptor cells

Heat, cold, pain, and pressure

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Kinesthetic Sense

Awareness of body position and movement of body parts

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Vestibular sense

Balance and body orientation

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Sensory adaptation

Decrease in sensory responsiveness due to constant and unchanging stimuli(getting used to surroudings)

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Signal Detection Theory

Focus attention on 1 thing at a time because we cannot process every stimulus

categorized by importance; forefront vs background

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Detection depends on

Quality of stimulus, environment, expectation & physiological state

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Selective attention:

Focusing conscious attention on a particular stimulus to the exclusion of others

Allows a person to function in a world of many stimuli

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Volume

Measured in decibels

Comes from amplitude of sound wave

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Tone/pitch

Measured in hertz

comes from frequency/wavelength of sound wave

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Auditory canal

Opening sound waves go through to get to ear for processing]

Ends at tympanic membrane(eardrum)

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Eardrum

Tissues that vibrate with sound

connected to bones in ear (ossicles)

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Ossicles

3 tiny bones

Transfer sound waves to oval window

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Oval Window

Point on cochlea which gets sound vibration frm ossicles

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Cochlea

A fluid-filled hearing organ

Converts sound waves to neural impulses

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Hair cells:

Receptor cells in cochlea that change sound vibrations into neural impulses

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Auditory nerve

Carries sound information from cochlea to brain in temporal lobe

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Semicircular Canals

Fluid-filled organs in the inner ear

Senses body orientation and balance(vestibular sense)

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Taste buds are located

Around the bumps on your tongue(papilla)

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Taste and smell contribute to

The experience of flavor

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Retina

Focuses light

located in back of eye

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Cones and Rods

Receptor cells in Retina

Convert light into electrical signals sent to the occipital lobe through optic nerve

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Cones

Color vision and detail

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Rods

Peripheal vision, shades of gray, night vision

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Sensation

Process of receiving stimulation

What goes into your senses(sights, sounds)

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Sensation is a ______ process

Passive

Just happens to you

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Perception

The process of filtering, organizing, and interpreting stimuli

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Perception is a _______ process

Active, cognitive

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Bottom-up processing

You take in stimuli and the brain takes it as is

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Top-down processing

You take in stimuli and your brain takes in context, then interpret what it means

uses past experience to form opinion

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Absolute threshold

The minimum amount of stimulation that an organism can detect 50% of the time

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Difference Thrreshold

Just noticable difference - minimum amount of difference needed to detect 2 stimuli are not the same

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Subliminal

Energy that is below your threshold for conscious awareness

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In Eye: Cornea = in ear is ______

Auditory Canal, Allows Stimuli in

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In Eye: _____ = In ear: Cochlea

Retina, contains receptors for stimuli

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In Eye: Rods & Cones = In ear:____

Cilia(hair-like), transduce stimuli into signals

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Transduction

The first step of perception

Converts a sensory signal into an electrical signal to be processed for perception

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