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Sensation -:- the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment Perception -:- the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events Bottom-up processi...

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AP Psychology Unit 4 Sensation and
Perception Questions & 100% Correct
Answers- Latest Test | Graded A+ | Passed
Sensation


✓ -:- the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and

represent stimulus energies from our environment




Perception


✓ -:- the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to

recognize meaningful objects and events




Bottom-up processing


✓ -:- analysis that begins with the sense receptors and works up to the brain's

integration of sensory information.




Top-down processing


✓ -:- Information processing guided by highler-level mental processes, as when we

construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations.




Psychophysics


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✓ -:- the study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli, such as

their intensity, and our psychological experience of them




Absolute Threshold


✓ -:- the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the

time




Signal Detection


✓ -:- predicting how and when we detect the presence of a faint stimulus (signal) amid

background stimulation (noise) Assumes that there is no single absolute threshold

and that detection depends partly on a person's experience, expectation,

motivation, and level of fatigue




Subliminal


✓ -:- below one's absolute threshold for conscious awareness




Difference Threshold


✓ -:- the minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50 percent of

the time. We experience the difference threshold as a just noticeable difference.

(Also called just noticeable difference or jnd.)




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