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Midterm 1 Terminology
Chapters 1 - 6
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
10/03/2014
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Principle of Transformation
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stimuli and responses created by the stimuli are often transformed, or changed between environmental stimulus and perception
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Principle of Representation
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everything a person perceives s based not on direct contact with stimuli but on representations of stimuli that are formed on the receptors and on activity in the persons nervous system
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Sensory receptors
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cells to respond to environment energy each sensory systems receptors respond to specific type of energy
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Transduction
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is important because the info formed on retina would not be transferred to the brain
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Environmental Stimulus
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Visual Pigmentation
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Neural processing
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Primary receiving area
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Occipital Lobe
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Temporal lobe
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Parietal lobe
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Frontal Lobe
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Perception
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Recognition
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Visual Form Agnosia
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Action
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Knowledge
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Rat-man demonstration
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Bottom-up processing
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Top-down processing
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Psychophysical approach
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Psychophysics
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Oblique effect
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Physiological approach
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Cognitive influences on perception
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Absolute threshold
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Classical psychophysical method
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Method of limits
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Method of adjustment
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Method of constant stimuli
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Difference threshold
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Weber fraction
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Weber's law
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Magnitude estimation
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Response compression
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Response expansion
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Power functions
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