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Psyc 320: Sensation & Perception
Exam 1: Review list (taken from the textbook)
Ch. 1
Perceptual process
Figure 1. 1
Environmental stimuli, attended stimuli, stimulus on the receptors (Fig. 1.2)
What is transduction?
Neural processing
Fig. 1.4
Fig. 1.6; Fig. 1.9
Bottom-up & Top-down processing
Cognitive influence of perception
Rat-man demonstration
psychophysical level of analysis
physiological level of analysis
psychophysics
absolute/difference threshold.
Fig. 1.13
Fig. 1.14
Weber’s law
Figure 1.15
magnitude estimation
response compression
response expansion
Steven’s power law
Ch. 2
Doctrine of specific nerve energies
neurons, cell body, dendrites, axon, synapse, neurotransmitter; What are they?
Fig. 2.3; 2.4
Modular organization
Primary receiving areas; occipital, temporal, & parietal lobe
Cell body, dendrites, axon
receptors
resting potential, action potential
neurotransmitter, receptor sites,
excitation/inhibition
Fig. 2.11; 2.14; 2.15; 2.16
Neural circuit
Convergence
Receptive field
Fig. 2.17; 2.18; 2.19
Center-surround receptive field
Excitatory-center-inhibitory-surround receptive field
Inhibitory-center-excitatory-surround receptive field
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Specificity coding
Distributed coding
Fig. 2.21; 2.23
Ch. 3
Electromagnetic spectrum, wavelength, visible light, rods, cones, optic nervce
Figures 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14.
Skip pp. 55-57
Ganglion cell; bipolar cell;
Neural convergence
Fig. 3.25; 3.26; 3.29
Visual acuity
Lateral inhibition
Fig. 3.31; 3.32; 3.33
Herman grid
Mach bands
Fig. 3.34; 3.35; 3.37; 3.38; 3.39; 3.40; 3.41
Simultaneous contrast
White’s illusion;
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