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Sensory Information
Dealing with sensory adaptation, habituation, etc
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
02/19/2012

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Term
Sensation
Definition
Information coming from your sensory receptors to your brain.
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Perception
Definition
How you interpret/organize sensory information.
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Change Blindness
Definition
blind to changes in visual field, you can only attend to part of the sensations you receive so that's what you notice/remember.
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Difference Threshold
Definition
Minimum difference needed between two things to know they're different 50% of the time.
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Absolute Threshold
Definition
Minimum amount of stimulation needed to know it's there. *Anything happening at all*
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Habituation
Definition
Tendency of your brain to stop attending to constant unchanging stimula i.e AC unit.
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Sensory Adaptation
Definition
Tendency of the sensory receptors to become less responsive to constant unchanging stimula. i.e o.j after tooth paste.
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