PPT-Fundamentals of Sensation and Perception

Sound and the ears Erik Chevrier October 6 th 2015 Videos The Four Ways Sound Affects Us The Mad Scientist of Music Orchestra in my Mouth Unlocking Music With Neuroscience Music on the Brain. *. Define acuity for me, please.. Acuity, as defined by the . M. erriam-Webster . medical . dictionary, . is “a keenness of sense perception. ”.. A sensation, (according to Sensation and Perception 3. Sensing and Perceiving. We Experience Our World Through Sensation. Seeing. Hearing. Tasting, Smelling, and Touching. Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Perception. Sensing and Perceiving. We Experience Our World Through Sensation. AP Psychology. Ms. C. Fahey. We do not actually experience the world directly, but instead we experience it through a series of “filters” we call senses. . The study of these sense and their effect on our behavior is called . AP PSYCH 42S (15) ~ Daniel B. & Hao-Yi S.. Guess which term the picture correlates to.. Prev. : . Gesalt. Where one perceives an entire image before recognizing individual parts. Prev. : figure ground. CHAPTER 4. SENSATION & PERCEPTION. Sensation. : The process of receiving stimulus energies from the external environment and transforming those energies into neural impulses.. How energy from the world is transformed into neural impulses that our brain can understand.. Learning objectives. understand what is meant by indirect or inferred perception. describe . how . information processing theorists . explain perception, with particular reference to . signal detection theory. Fatmah . Sakran. 200901078. Definitions . Sensation:. The detection of physical energy emitted or reflected by physical objects. Occurs when energy in the external environment or the body stimulates receptors in the sense organs.. 16-1: . WHAT ARE . SENSATION. AND . PERCEPTION. ? WHAT . DO WE MEAN . BY . BOTTOM-UP PROCESSING . AND . TOP-DOWN PROCESSING?. Sensation and perception are actually parts of one continuous process.. Sensation: . Independence Day Festivities in Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.. Get Ready. for 2016!. Sensation Park Entertainment Group will be hosting special Independence celebrations at parks in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. . Do Now-HW quiz . Notes. Activity. Do Now. Go to my teacher page, click on AP Psychology Do Now’s and copy and paste the link into the URL.. Ap psychology: unit . 3. Introductory Psychology. :. Sensation & Perception. Orbital Region General Sensation and Vision General Sensation and Orbital Region: Topic Objectives Be able to identify the four basic conditions necessary for sensation Be able to apply the characteristics of sensation to unique clinical and pathological conditions Outline: Sensation and Perception. Define key terms. Describe the relationship between the physical world and its psychological representation (i.e., . sensation. ).. Discuss how we use psychological representations to identify objects (i.e., . SECTION 1: SENSATION. WHAT IS SENSATION?. Def. : what occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor. Stimulus. : an aspect of or change in the environment to which an organism responds. SENSATION CONTINUED. Sensation vs. Perception. Sensation:. a process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energy. Sensation is the raw data our brain takes in from the environment..