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The inability to recognize faces.
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Prosopagnosia
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Stimulation of sensory organs, and the absorption if energy, such as light sound waves by the ears and eyes.
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Sensation
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Interpretation of sensory inputs, and the organizing and translating of sensory inputs into something meaningful.
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Perception
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The study of how physical stimuli are translated into psychological experiences.
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Psychophysics
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A dividing point between energy levels that do and do not have a detectable effect.
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Threshold
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The lowest intensity at which a stimulus can be detected 50% of the time.
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Absolute threshold
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The smallest difference in the amount of stimulation that a specific sense can detect.
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Just Noticable Difference
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The size of a just noticeable difference is a constant proportion of the size of the initial stimulus.
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Weber's Law
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Gradual decline in sensitivity to a stimulus due to prolonged stimulation.
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Sensory adaptation
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The magnitude of a sensory experience if proportional to the number of JNDs that the stimulus causing the experience above the absolute threshold.
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Fechner's Law
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The detection of stimuli involves decision processes as well as sensory processes, which are both influenced by a variety of factors besides stimulus intensity.
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Signal-detection
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The registration of sensory input without conscious awareness.
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Subliminal perception
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