X period review for
Sensation/Perception Test
Mrs. Craig
perception
Process of giving
meaning to
incoming sensory
messages
ESP
Has no reliable
experiments to
prove it exists
Pupil
Becomes smaller in
bright light
Gestalt
Looks at the whole –
not the parts of
something
Cones and Rods
Located on the
retina of the eye
Color blindness
Affects the
red/green
cones more
often
Decibels
Measure the
loudness of
sound
Proximity/nearness
Gives meaning to
things that are
positioned close
together
Absolute Threshold
Smallest amount of
stimuli our senses can
detect
Sensation
Process in which
we get info from
the outside world
Illusions
Are misperceptions
Perceptual set
What we expect to see
Depth perception
Learned- the visual cliff
Born in us– with vision in
two eyes
Closure
Fills in missing info-- like
eye witness accounts
Receptors
In each sense take
stimuli to brain
Conceptualization/Perception
 Gives order to the world
Sensory adaptation
 When a particular smell is so familiar we don’t
smell it anymore