Sensory and Perception

Flashcard 1
Front: 5 Senses + Vestibular (Balance)
Back:

  • Sight

  • Hearing

  • Smell

  • Taste

  • Touch

  • Balance (Vestibular system)

Flashcard 2
Front: ESP (Extra Sensory Perception)
Back:

  • Not proven

  • Premonition: Predicting the future

  • Medium: Communicating with spirits

  • Telekinesis: Moving objects with the mind

Flashcard 3
Front: Sensation and Sensory Receptors
Back:

  • Sensation begins with sensory receptors (neurons specialized for senses)

  • Sight: Eyes → Rods and cones (retina)

  • Hearing: Basilar membrane (cochlea)

  • Smell: Nose → Olfactory bulb

  • Taste: Tongue → Gustatory bulb

  • Touch: Skin

Flashcard 4
Front: Transduction
Back:

  • Changing one form of energy into another

  • Sight & Hearing: Waves → Neural impulses

  • Smell & Taste: Chemical energy → Neural impulses

Flashcard 5
Front: Bottom-Up Processing
Back:

  • Sensation

  • Information starts outside the body and travels to the brain

Flashcard 6
Front: Top-Down Processing
Back:

  • Perception

  • Starts in the brain (thought) and moves down through the body

Flashcard 7
Front: Selective Attention
Back:

  • The brain's ability to focus on specific sensations

Flashcard 8
Front: Inattention Blindness
Back:

  • Our senses ignore a lot of information that we don't focus on

Flashcard 9
Front: Absolute Threshold
Back:

  • The smallest amount of stimulus we can detect 50% of the time

  • When a sensation begins

Flashcard 10
Front: Difference Threshold
Back:

  • The smallest change in a stimulus that we can detect

Flashcard 11
Front: Sensory Adaptation
Back:

  • When a sensation continues, sometimes we no longer notice it