Sensation and Perception

Define the term inattentional blindness

• Failure to notice something that is completely visible because of lack of attention

• Change in stimulus detection as a function of current mental state

• Ability to notice something that is directly in front of you because you are paying attention

• System in which perfections are built from sensory input

Match the definition to the term: The reduction in sensitivity after prolonged exposure to a stimulus.

• Priming

• Absolute Threshold

• Sensory Adapation

• Transduction

Define the term Closure

• Educated guess used to interpret sensory information

• A type of sense

• Segmenting our visual world into figure and ground

• Organize our perceptions into complete objects rather than as a series of parts

Match the definition to the term: Effects that concern the influence of the perception of one sensory modality on the perception of another

• Pattern Perception

• Crossmodal Phenomena

• Weber's law

• Multimodal Phenomena

Match the definition to the term: The effects that concurrent stimulation in more than one sensory modality has on the perception of events and objects in the world

• Double flash illusion

• Transduction

• Multimodal perception

• McGurk effect

Define the term: McGurk effect

• An effect in which conflicting visual and auditory components of a speech

• Messages presented below the threshold of conscious awareness

• Effects that concern the binding inputs from multiple sensory modalities

• The process by which recent experiences increase a traits accessibility

What did Ernest Weber discover?

• The Amazon river

• That the difference threshold is a constant fraction of the original stimulus

• The rainforest

• how to make ice cubes

Match the definition to the term: Minimum amount of stimulus energy that must be present for the stimulus to be detected 50% of the time.

• Bottom-up processing

• Absolute Threshold

• Perceptual hyothesis

• Good continuation

Define the term: Rubber hand illusion

• The false perfection of a fake hand as belonging to a perceiver due to multimodal sensory information

• Things that are close to one another tend to be grouped together

• Difference in the stimuli required to detect a difference between thee stimuli

• Conversion from sensory stimulus energy to action potential

Match the definition to the term: The process by which the perceptual system combines information arising from more than one modality.

• Principle of closure

• Pattern perception

• Sensation

• Integrated