Sensations & Perception

Sensation

Perception

Stimulus

Illusions

Perceptual set

Transduction

Top-down processing

Bottom-up processing

Loudness

How the ear functions

Parts of the Ear

Sound waves

Direction of Sound

Semicircular Canal

Threshold

Absolute Threshold

Weber’s Law

Just noticeable difference

Subliminal stimulus/messaging

Perceptual constancy

Perceptual adaptation

Synesthesia

Sensory Adaptation

Light waves

Rods vs. cones

Trichromatic Theory

Visible spectrum

Function of the eye

Parts of the eye

Chemical senses

Flavour vs Taste

How the tongue functions

Supertasters & nontasters

Olfaction

How the olfactory functions

How the sense of touch works:

• Pain sensors

• Pressure Sensors

• Temperature sensors

Somatosensory cortex

Function of pain

Structuralists

Depth perception

Gestalt organization rules:

• figure-ground

• closure

• proximity

• continuity