AP Psych: Unit 3 Vocab: Pt. 1

Stimulation of sensory receptors

• Sensation

• Perception

• Transduction

• Psychophysics

Interpretation of sensory stimulation

• Sensation

• Perception

• Transduction

• Accommodation

Organization of sensations

• Parallel Processing

• Perception

• Feature Detectors

• Gestalt Principles

Facilitates transmission of sensory stimulation to CNS

• Sensation

• Perception

• Transduction

• Psychophysics

Converts stimulation into neural signals that the brain can interpret

• Accommodation

• Signal Detection Theory

• Sensory Adaptation

• Transduction

Study of sensation and our perceptual experience of it

• Perception

• Sensory Adaptation

• Psychophysics

• Gestalt Principles

Bottom up processing

• Sensation

• Perception

• Parallel Processing

• Feature Detectors

Top down processing:

• Sensation

• Perception

• Transduction

• Signal Detection Theory

Study of sensation and perception together

• Psychophysics

• Transduction

• Perceptual Set

• Schema

Concept of Gustav Fechner

• Accommodation

• Psychophysics

• Parallel Processing

• Feature Detectors