sensation and perception chelsea touchtone marissa mckenna riley johnson
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Key People David Hubel Torsten Wiesel Ernst Weber Gustav Fechner Eleanor GibsonTRANSCRIPT
Sensation and Perception
Chelsea TouchtoneMarissa McKenna
Riley Johnson
Vocab. Need to Know • Sensation• Difference Threshold• Feature Detectors • Optic Nerve• Visible Light• Rods• Cones • Perception• Transduction• Cornea • Pupil• Lens • Retina• Fovea• Blind Spot
•Trichromatic Theory •Color Blindness•After Images •Opponent Process Theory •Sound Waves•Amplitude•Frequency •Cochlea •Pitch Theory•Place Theory•Frequency Theory•Conduction Deafness •Nerve Deafness
•Touch•Gate Control Theory•Taste •Smell•Vestibular Sense•Kinesthetic Sense•Absolute Threshold•Subliminal Messages•Weber’s Law•Top Down Processing•Bottom Up Processing •Gestalt Rules•Proximity•Size Consistency •Shape Consistency•Depth Cues http://quizlet.com/252362/ap-psychology-sensation-perception-flash-cards/
Key People
• David Hubel• Torsten Wiesel• Ernst Weber• Gustav Fechner• Eleanor Gibson
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
• Discovered that groups of neurons in the visual cortex respond to different types of visual images.
• Visual cortex has feature detectors for vertical lines, curves, motion, and many other features of images.
Ernest Weber• Psychophysics who computed Weber’s
Law• For people to perceive a difference, the
stimulus must differ by a constant proportion not a constant amount.
• Weber’s Law- related to the just noticeable difference, which is the minimum difference in stimulation that a person can detect 50% of the time.
Gustav Fechner
• Contributor to Weber’s Law
• Some textbooks refer to this law as the Weber-Fechner Law
Eleanor Gibson
• Researcher who used the visual cliff experiment to determine when human infants can perceive depth.
• Found that an infant old enough to crawl would not crawl over the glass top table inferring they have developed depth perception.
Review
• Quiz 1 http://allpsych.com/tests/psychology/sensation_perception.html
• Quiz 2 http://mypages.valdosta.edu/mwhatley/2500/MC/Sensation.htm
• Quiz 3 http://www.appsychology.com/HowPass/MC%20quizes/MCquizeshome.htm
Informative Websites
• http://wchs.woodfordschools.org/apreview/default.htm#sensation
• http://www.funnelbrain.com/c-891-point-person-able-perceive-stimulus.html
Podcasts
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/psych-370-sensation-perception/id412969681
Crossword Puzzle This crossword will be helpful in
your review for this unit • http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/
free/007313368x/300172/chapter4.html
Review Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vHJsRm_pL8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwK-RM42K5I
Podcasts
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/psych-370-sensation-perception/id412969681