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Pages 181-184, 190-203, 214-223 in Chapter 6 "Sensation
& Perception" & related classes
Facts and concepts to understand
- What is the difference between sensation and perception?
- How do sensory neurons differ from other neurons?
- What are the basic senses? 5 + kinesthesia
- What physical properties of light are detected by the eye?
- Why is image on retina upside down?
- Process of dark adaptation
- Location and function of rods and cones
- Types of cones, types of ganglion cells
- Color blindness, cause of red-green color-blindness
- Tests for color blindness
- Opponent-process theory of color vision
- How do feature detectors operate? Where are they located?
- Route/process of visual sensation and perception, from light entering
the eyes to recognition of what one is seeing
- Gestalt principles involved in perception
- Figure, ground
- What cues are used in depth and distance perception?
- How do people maintain perceptual constancy?
- Why are people subject to the Muller-Lyer illusion?
- visual adaptation/perceptual adaptation
- Influences other than sensation on perception
- Expectations and perception
Terms
- sensation
- perception
- sensory neurons
- synesthesia
- pupil, iris, lens
- retina, fovea, periphery
- optic nerve
- blind spot
- wavelength/hue/color, brightness/intensity, saturation/colorfulness
- rods
- cones
- ganglion cells
- feature detectors
- occipital lobe
- visual cortex
- Stroop effect
- Gestalt psychology
- retinal disparity
- perceptual constancy
- Muller-Lyer illusion
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