Sensation

Sensation, perception

Perception
Selection Attention o Cocktail party effect o Unattentional blindness Change blindness, choice blindness, choice-blindness blindness

Processing
Bottom-up, top-down

Thresholds
Absolute, subliminal, difference

Perceptual Illusions
Visual capture

Sensory Adaptation Vision

Transduction

Perceptual Organization
Gestalt Form perception o Figure and ground, grouping, proximity, similarity, continuity, connectedness, closure Depth Perception depth, visual cliff o Binocular cues Retinal disparity, convergence o Monocular cues Relative size, interposition, relative clarity, texture gradient, relative height, relative motion, linear perspective, light and shadow o Motion perception Phi phenomena o Perceptual constancy Shape and size, size-distance, lightness

Eye
Pupil, iris, lens, retina Accommodation Acuity nearsightedness and farsightedness Retina o Rods, cones, optic nerve, blind spot, fovea

Processing
Feature detection, parallel processing

Color
Young-Helmholtz trichromatic (3-color theory), opponent process Color constancy

Perceptual Interpretation
Perceptual adaptation Perceptual set Perception and Human Factor

Hearing
Audition Pitch, frequency

Ear
Outer ear eardrum cochlea oval window basilar membrane hair

Extrasensory Perception
ESPp

Theories
Place, frequency

Locate Sounds Hearing loss

Conduction, sensorineural Cochlear implant

Other Senses
Touch o Pain, gate control tehory Taste Smell Body position and movement o Kinesthesis, vestibular sense