Sensation and Perception Flashcard

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What is sensation?

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The process by which we receive information from the environment.

Front

What is the role of transduction in sensation?

Back

It converts sensory stimuli into neural signals.

Front

What does the vestibular sense help us with?

Back

Maintaining balance and body posture

Front

What concept explains why you stop noticing a smell after being in the room for a while?

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Habituation/Adaptation

Front

Which is NOT a basic quality of taste? Sweetness, Sourness, Umami, Spicy

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Spicy

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Which sensory process involves converting external stimuli into neural signals?

Back

Transduction

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What is perception?

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Process of selecting, identifying, and organizing information from sensation to the brain.

Front

Which type of perception can be affected by stereotypes and generalizations?

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Social perception

Front

Which principle explains how we distinguish an object from its background?

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Figure/Ground

Front

What is binocular depth perception?

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The ability to perceive depth using both eyes, which allows for better distance judgment through the comparison of the slightly different images from each eye.