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Sensation and Perception Overview

Chapter 4 covers the systems involved in sensory intake and processing, including definitions of sensation and perception, illusions, and psychophysics. It discusses various sensory modalities such as vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, along with their respective physiological components and theories. Additionally, it addresses attentional processes and theories related to information filtering and perception.

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Sensation and Perception Overview

Chapter 4 covers the systems involved in sensory intake and processing, including definitions of sensation and perception, illusions, and psychophysics. It discusses various sensory modalities such as vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, along with their respective physiological components and theories. Additionally, it addresses attentional processes and theories related to information filtering and perception.

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Chapter 4 127-172 -The systems associated with the intake and processing of sensory

Sensation and stimuli


Perception Sensation Definition
Perception Definition
Illusions
Psychophysics
Absolute Thresholds, psychometric function
Subliminal perception (all lecture material)
Sensory adaptation
Response bias
Signal detection theory
Difference thresholds, Just Noticeable Differences
Weber’s law
Transduction Definition
Sensory receptors
Visual System Parts and lecture material
Retinal pathways
Optic nerve
Rods/Cones
Fovea, retina, blindspot, V1
Colour perception
Lecture material: Depth perception
-binocular cues
-monocular cues
Change blindness
Saccadic masking
Hearing Physics of sound
-pitch, loudness, timbre
Auditory system, parts, function (all lecture material)
Place theory
Volley Principle
Sound localization
Smell, taste Parts and function
All lecture material (especially research on smell acuity)
Touch Parts and function
Vestibular sense
Kinaesthetic sense
Pain Melzack and Gate-control theory, Neuromatrix theory
Phantom limb
Attentional processes
-goal-directed and stimulus-driven
Unattended information
-Broadbent and filter theory
-dichotic listening, cocktail party phenomenon

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