Sensation and Perception exam review

Cocktail party effect

attention is drawn to one word during a party "exactly"

Sensourineal hearing loss resulst from damage to

cochlea

Manifest content

Actual dream

Indviduals do or do not act out dreams

Dont

Muller lyer illusion

People develop perceptions based on experiences in their lives

Correct path a neural impulse will follow through different layers of retina

Rods and cones, bipolar cells, ganglion cells, optic nerve

Place theory

high pitched sounds trigger large vibrations near beginning of membrane

reduces activity of central nervous system, cerebellum and hippocampus

alcohol

Latent

deep meaning behind dream

Size constancy

friend walks away but you know they are sitll the same size

top down processing

loses the abilitly to process motion

Absolute threshold

minimum amount of stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus 50% of teh time

visual transduction process begins in this are that houses photoreceptors

retina

NREM 3

sleepwalking, talking, eating, night terrors