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| The process of organizing and making sense of sensory information |
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| Activation of receptors (Our ability to feel) |
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| What is the minimum amount of energy required for concious detection of a stimulus. |
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| What is the smallest amount of stimulation that must be added to or subtracted from an existing stimulus for a person to be able to detect a change. |
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| Sense tha allows us to see |
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| SEnse that allows us to hear |
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| What are Gestalts four laws of perception? |
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| continuation, closure, proximity, similarity |
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| Sense that allows us to smell |
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| sense that allows us to taste |
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| sense that allows us to feel |
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| Stimuli that are below the threshold of conciousness. (we are not aware of them but it still stimulates our receptors) |
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| When your eye changes the focus of the lens to focus on the visual image |
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| The tendency to percieve the size and shape of an object as constant even though its retinal image changes |
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| Your perception of the shape of an object is viewed from different angles, does not change even though the image projected on your retina does |
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| tendency to percieve the size of an object as constant depsite changes in its retinal images |
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| The ability to percieve our world three dimensionally |
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| Cues for depth perception that involve the use of both eyes |
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| cues for depth perception that involve the use of only one eye (color and texture) |
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| Organization of perceptual elements into a figure and a background (What you focus on becomes the focus of the picture. If you focus on something else that first object becomes the background) |
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| Perceptual elements that are close together are seen as a group |
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| Elements that are similar are seen as a group |
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| smooth flowing lines are more readily percieved than choppy broken lines. |
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| organizing perceptions into whole objects is easier than percieving separate parts independently |
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