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  1. SENSORY PROCESSES
    1. Stimulus Detection: The Absolute Threshold
    2. Signal Detection Theory
    3. Subliminal Stimuli: Can They Affect Behavior?
      1. Beneath the Surface: Are Subliminal Self-Help Products Effective?
    4. The Difference Threshold
    5. Sensory Adaptation
  2. THE SENSORY SYSTEMS
    1. Vision
      1. The Human Eye
      2. Photoreceptors: The Rods and Cones
      3. Visual Transduction: From Light to Nerve Impulses
      4. Brightness Vision and Dark Adaptation
      5. Color Vision
        1. The trichromatic theory
        2. Opponent-process theory
        3. Dual processes in color transduction
        4. Color-deficient vision
      6. Analysis and Reconstruction of Visual Scenes
        1. Feature detectors
        2. Visual association processes
    2. Audition
      1. Auditory Transduction: From Pressure Waves to Nerve Impulses
      2. Coding of Pitch and Loudness
      3. Sound Localization
        1. What Do You Think? The Topophone and Sound Localization
      4. Hearing Loss
        1. Applying Psychological Science: Sensory Prosthetics: "Eyes" for the Blind, "Ears" for the Hearing Impaired
    3. Taste and Smell: The Chemical Senses
      1. Gustation: The Sense of Taste
      2. Olfaction: The Sense of Smell
    4. The Skin and Body Senses
      1. The Tactile Senses
      2. The Body Senses
  3. PERCEPTION: THE CREATION OF EXPERIENCE
    1. Perception Is Selective: The Role of Attention
      1. Environmental and Personal Factors in Attention
    2. Perceptions Have Organization and Structure
      1. Gestalt Principles of Perceptual Organization
    3. Perception Involves Hypothesis Testing
    4. Perception Is Influenced by Expectations: Perceptual Sets
    5. Stimuli Are Recognizable Under Changing Conditions: Perceptual Constancies
      1. What Do You Think? Why Does That Rising Moon Look So Big?
  4. PERCEPTION OF DEPTH, DISTANCE, AND MOVEMENT
    1. Depth and Distance Perception
      1. Monocular Depth Cues
      2. Binocular Depth Cues
    2. Perception of Movement
  5. ILLUSIONS: FALSE PERCEPTUAL HYPOTHESES
    1. What Do You Think? Explain This Striking Illusion
    2. Research Close-Up: Stalking a Deadly Illusion
  6. EXPERIENCE, CRITICAL PERIODS, AND PERCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT
    1. Cross-Cultural Research on Perception
    2. Critical Periods: The Role of Early Experience
    3. Restored Sensory Capacity





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