Sensation and Perception Vocab

Front

Areas of the parietal lobe involved in touch sensations.

Back

Somatosensory

Front

Stronger stimuli require larger increases to detect changes.

Back

Weber's

Front

Four basic principles: closure, proximity, similarity, simplicity.

Back

Gestalt

Front

Processing, organizing, and interpreting sensory messages.

Back

Perception

Front

After complex processing in the nervous system, this electrical activity pattern is generated in the brain.

Back

sensation

Front

Nerve carrying impulses from retina to brain.

Back

optic

Front

Nerve carrying impulses from the nose to the brain.

Back

olfactory

Front

Experience of a sound's frequency: highness or lowness.

Back

pitch

Front

Sense of movement and body position from receptors in muscles, tendons, and joints.

Back

kinesthesis

Front

Visual system providing 3D appearance with depth info.

Back

stereopsis