Sensation and Perception

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How we perceive and interpret sensory information from the environment.

Sensory modalities: The different ways that our senses work and how they send information to the brain.
Sensory thresholds: The minimum intensity of a stimulus needed for it to be detected by the senses.
Sensory processing: The process by which the brain interprets and gives meaning to sensory information.
Attention and selection: The mechanisms by which the brain focuses on certain sensory inputs and ignores others.
Perception and recognition: The process by which the brain creates a mental representation of sensory information, and how that representation is recognized and interpreted.
Perceptual constancy: The ability of the brain to maintain a stable perception of an object or stimulus despite changes in its physical environment and the sensory information it provides.
Perceptual illusions: Examples of how our perception can be misled by sensory information to create false or distorted perceptions.
Bottom-up and top-down processing: The two main ways that the brain processes sensory information, either by processing from simple to complex (bottom-up) or from complex to simple (top-down).
Neural mechanisms of sensation and perception: The specific neural pathways and brain regions that are involved in different aspects of sensation and perception.
The effects of context and experience on perception: How our past experiences and current context can influence our perception of sensory information.
Sensation and perception disorders: Examples of conditions that can affect our ability to perceive sensory information, such as color blindness, synesthesia, and sensory deprivation.
Cross-modal sensory integration: The ability of the brain to combine and integrate information from different sensory modalities to create a more complete perceptual experience.
Vision: Vision refers to the perceptual process of interpreting and making sense of visual information through the eyes.
Hearing: Hearing refers to the sensory process of perceiving sound waves and converting them into meaningful information in the brain.
Touch: Touch refers to the sensory experience of physical contact between an object and the skin, including the perception of pressure, temperature, and texture.
Taste: The topic of taste in psychology and sensation and perception refers to the sense that allows an individual to detect flavors and experience the perception of different qualities of food and drink.
Smell: Smell is the sense that allows organisms to perceive and distinguish various odors in their environment.
Proprioception: Proprioception refers to the sense of the position and movement of one's body parts, without relying on external stimuli.
Vestibular sense: The vestibular sense refers to our ability to sense and perceive our body's position, balance, and movement in relation to gravity.
Kinesthetic sense: Kinesthetic sense refers to the ability to sense the position, movement, and tension of muscles and joints, allowing for the perception of body movement and coordination.
Pain perception: Pain perception involves the sensory and psychological processes by which the body's nociceptive (pain) signals are experienced and interpreted by an individual.
Temperature perception: Temperature perception in the context of Psychology and Sensation and Perception refers to the brain's interpretation and subjective experience of hot and cold stimuli.
Time perception: Time perception refers to the subjective experience and mental processes involved in perceiving and understanding the passage of time.
Spatial orientation perception: Spatial orientation perception refers to the ability to perceive and understand the position and orientation of objects in relation to oneself and the surrounding environment.
Auditory localization perception: Auditory localization perception refers to the ability to determine the source and location of sound in the environment.
Gustatory perception: Gustatory perception refers to the psychological process of perceiving and interpreting tastes and flavors.
Olfactory perception: Olfactory perception pertains to the psychological processes involved in the perception and interpretation of smells and scents.
Tactile perception: Tactile perception refers to the processing and interpretation of touch sensations through the skin, allowing us to detect and understand the qualities of objects and stimuli through touch.
Aesthetic perception: Aesthetic perception in psychology refers to the study of how individuals perceive and evaluate the beauty or artistic qualities of stimuli.
Synesthesia perception: Synesthesia perception refers to a neurologically based phenomenon wherein stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic and involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.
Interoception: Interoception refers to the perception and awareness of internal bodily sensations such as hunger, pain, and heartbeat.
Multisensory perception: Multisensory perception refers to the integration of information from multiple sensory modalities, such as vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, to form a unified perception of the external world.
Perceptual learning: Perceptual learning is the process by which an individual's ability to interpret and understand sensory information improves through practice and experience.
Perceptual constancy: Perceptual constancy is the ability of the brain to perceive objects as stable and unchanging, despite variations in sensory input such as lighting or distance.
Perceptual adaptation: Perceptual adaptation refers to the brain's ability to adjust and modify its sensory perception based on changes in the environment.
Perceptual organization: Perceptual organization refers to the process by which our brain organizes and integrates basic sensory information into meaningful and coherent perceptual units.
Perceptual differentiation: Perceptual differentiation refers to the ability to distinguish and recognize different sensory inputs or stimuli based on their distinct features or characteristics.
Perceptual grouping: Perceptual grouping refers to how our brains organize individual sensory inputs into coherent perceptual units based on Gestalt principles such as proximity, similarity, and continuity.
Perceptual closure: Perceptual closure refers to the brain's ability to fill in missing information and perceive complete objects or patterns even when only parts are presented.
Perceptual set: Perceptual set is a concept that describes how prior experiences, expectations, and attitudes can influence our perception of incoming sensory information.
Perceptual illusions: Perceptual illusions refer to the deceptive or erroneous perception of sensory information that can distort one's interpretation of reality.
Top-down processing: Top-down processing refers to the influence of pre-existing knowledge, expectations, and context on the interpretation of sensory information.
Bottom-up processing: Bottom-up processing refers to information processing that begins with the sensory receptors, as opposed to relying on prior knowledge or expectations.
Gestalt principles.: Gestalt principles focus on how our brains organize visual stimuli into meaningful patterns and wholes.
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- "Sensation (psychology) refers to the processing of the senses by the sensory system."
- "Sensation (psychology) refers to the processing of the senses by the sensory system."