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Cards In This Set
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What is Perception?
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1) the process of recognizing, organizing, and interpreting information
2) it is how we attach meaning to the sensory info we recieve |
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Sight
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Visual Perception
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Taste
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Gustatory Perception
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Hearing
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Auditory Perception
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Smell
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Olfactory Perception
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Touch
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Haptic Perception
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Distal Object
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The actual stimulus in the external world
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Informational medium
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The energy patter imposed by the stimulusEx: reflected light, sound waves, chemical molecules, mechanical pressure, vibration
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Proximal Stimulation
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Of sensory receptors by informational medium. What you sense isn't the same as what you perceive.E.g. photon absorption on retina rods and cones
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Percept
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- the meaningful interpretation of the proximal simulus:- what we actually "see", "hear", "taste", "smell", or "feel".- is influenced by prior knowledge
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Cornea
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-light enters the eye and passes through both this and the pupil.-this protects the eye and refracts light
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Pupil
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- light enters the eye and passes through both this and the cornea- hole in the eye; dilation controlled by the iris
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Iris
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Controls dilation of the pupil
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Retina
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Contains rods and cones to transduce(convert) light energy into electrical energy used by the nervous system to represent the external environment.
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Optic Nerve
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Visual information is transmitted to the brain by this structure
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