 | Learning Objectives
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- Define sensation, perception, stimulus, and psychophysics.
- Distinguish between absolute threshold, just noticeable difference, and sensory adaptation.
- Be able to apply Weber's Law as a principle of psychophysics.
- Describe the structural components of the eye, the initial processing of light, and adaptation to different light levels.
- Discuss how an image is conveyed from the eye to the brain and the role of feature detection in processing visual information.
- Explain the trichromatic and opponent-process theories and how they account for color vision.
- Describe the structural parts of the ear, and the role of each part in detecting sound.
- Distinguish between the place theory and the frequency theory of hearing.
- Explain how semicircular canals detect motion and produce the sense of balance.
- Describe the sensory mechanisms of smell and taste.
- Describe the skin senses of touch, pressure, and temperature, and explain the gate-control theory of pain.
- Describe techniques for managing pain.
- Explain how our senses interact.
- Distinguish perception from sensation.
- Describe the Gestalt Laws of Organization.
- Distinguish between top-down and bottom-up processing.
- Explain perceptual constancy and depth perception.
- Describe and illustrate perceptual illusions, especially the Müller-Lyer illusion.
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