sensation • Discuss basic principles of sensory transduction, including absolute threshold, bottom-up processing difference threshold, signal detection, and sensory perception adaptation. top-down processing Explain the role of top-down processing in producing absolute threshold • vulnerability to illusion. difference threshold Discuss the role of attention in behavior. signal detection theory • Identify the major historical fi gures in sensation and sensory adaptation • perception (e.g., Gustav selective attention Fechner, David Hubel, Ernst Weber, Torsten Wiesel). Weber’s Law Describe sensory processes (e.g., hearing, vision, touch, cornea taste, smell, vestibular, iris kinesthesis, pain), including the specific nature of pupil energy transduction, relevant lens anatomical structures, and specialized pathways in the retina. brain for each of the receptor cells senses. rods Describe general principles of organizing and cones • integrating sensation to promote optic nerve stable awareness of the external world (e.g., Gestalt blind spot principles, depth trichromatic theory perception). opponent-process theory Discuss how experience and culture can infl uence pitch • perceptual processes (e.g., cochlea perceptual set, context effects). hair cells auditory nerve kinesthetic sense vestibular sense figure-ground grouping depth perception visual cliff binocular cues monocular cues retinal disparity convergence perceptual constancy
• Discuss basic principles of sensory transduction, including absolute threshold, difference threshold, signal detection, and sensory adaptation. • Explain the role of top-down processing in producing vulnerability to illusion. • Discuss the role of attention in behavior. • Identify the major historical fi gures in sensation and perception (e.g., Gustav Fechner, David Hubel, Ernst Weber, Torsten Wiesel). Describe sensory processes (e.g., hearing, vision, touch, taste, smell, vestibular, kinesthesis, pain), including the specific nature of energy transduction, relevant anatomical structures, and specialized pathways in the brain for each of the senses. • Describe general principles of organizing and integrating sensation to promote stable awareness of the external world (e.g., Gestalt principles, depth perception). • Discuss how experience and culture can infl uence perceptual processes (e.g., perceptual set, context effects). sensation bottom-up processing perception top-down processing absolute threshold difference threshold signal detection theory sensory adaptation selective attention Weber’s Law cornea iris pupil lens retina. receptor cells rods cones optic nerve blind spot trichromatic theory opponent-process theory pitch cochlea hair cells auditory nerve kinesthetic sense vestibular sense figure-ground grouping depth perception visual cliff binocular cues monocular cues retinal disparity convergence perceptual constancy
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