What is the difference between sensation and perception?
What is the difference between sensation and perception?
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School: University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
Department: Psychology
Course: Intro to Psych
Professor: Douglas matthews
Term: Fall 2016
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Cost: 50
Name: Exam #1 Study Guide
Description: Here is a study guide with the list of terms/concepts that we covered in lecture for the first exam. I also included questions you should be able to answer under some concepts.
Uploaded: 10/01/2016
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Psychology 100001: Exam #1 Study Guide
What is the difference between sensation and perception?
Beginning Psychology:
∙ Where did psychology begin?
∙ Structuralism
∙ Functionalism
∙ Behaviorism
o How are environments and behaviors related? ∙ Freudian Psychology
o Unconsciousness
o Humanistic Psychology
o Cognitive Neuroscience
∙ Nature Vs. Nurture
o What are the causes of behavior?
o How does culture affect our behavior?
∙ Levels of Analysis
o SocialCultural
o Biological
o Psychological
∙ Basic Psychology Research
o What is the focus of basic research?
∙ Applied Psychology Research
o What is the focus of basic research?
∙ YerkesDodson Law
o Ex: Finals Week
∙ Critical Thinking
o What are the perks?
o What are the steps?
o Life Experiences
o Sense Perception
What is the focus of basic research?
o Observation
∙ Scientific Method
o What is a theory?
o What is a hypothesis?
o Experiments
Experimental Group
Control Group
Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
o Group Selection
Population
Samples
Bias
o Analyzing data
Central Tendency
Variability
Significance
∙ What is significant difference?
o Correlation
What is a positive correlation?
What is a negative correlation?
o Surveys, Interviews & Case Studies
What are the differences between them?
Bio Psychology:
∙ Split Brain
∙ Organelles
o Nucleus
o Mitochondria
o Golgi Apparatus
o Ribosome
o Endoplasmic Reticulum
o Bilipid Membrane
o Lysosomes
∙ Genetic Influences
What are the steps in critical thinking?
o Phenotype If you want to learn more check out anth 202 concordia
What is observed?
o Genotype
What genes are present? We also discuss several other topics like reglows
∙ Neurocytoarchitecture
o Dendrites
o Soma
o Axon Hillock
o Axon
o Node
o Myelin Sheath
o Terminal Button
∙ Action Potential
o How does it start?
o Be able to draw it out Don't forget about the age old question of multiarticulate
o What channels are opened/closed?
∙ Conversion of AP to Chemical Information o Neurotransmitters
o Synapse
o What are four things that can happen to a neurotransmitter in the synapse?
∙ Nervous System
o Central Nervous system
o Peripheral Nervous system
∙ How do drugs work?
∙ Brain function/behavior
o Lesions
o Reversible Lesions
o EEG
o CT Scan
o PET Scan
o MRI fMRI Don't forget about the age old question of 222 hebrew meaning
∙ Neuroanatomical
o Cerebral Cortex
o Thalamus
o Hypothalamus
o Optic tract
o Amygdala
o Pituitary Gland
o Hippocampus
o Brain stem
o Spinal Cord
o Cerebellum
o Pons
o Reticular Formation
o Limbic System
o Cerebrum
o Medulla
∙ What is the frontal lobe?
∙ What is the occipital lobe?
∙ What is the temporal lobe?
Sensation vs. Perception:
∙ Sensation
o Biological or Cognitive? Don't forget about the age old question of plasma membrane lipid bilayer
If you want to learn more check out ” What are some key differences between the “medical model” of health versus the “population health” model?
o How do things from the outside world get into our brains? o How does it work?
∙ Perception
o Biological or Cognitive?
o How does our cognition process a given sensation?
∙ Transduction
o What is it?
o How does transduction work?
∙ Threshold
o Absolute
o Difference
Weber’s Law
∙ Adaptation
∙ Bottom Up vs. Top Down
o What are they?
o Which one is more common?
∙ Vision
o How does transduction work with vision? o What are the receptors involved?
o Bipolar Cells
o Horizontal Cells
o Amicron Cells
o Do any channels get opened/closed? ∙ Neural Pathways
