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PSYCHOLOGY(9th Edition)David Myers PowerPoint Slides Aneeq Ahmad Henderson State University Worth Publishers, ? 2010 Sensation and PerceptionChapter 6 Sensation Sensing the World: Some Basic Principles Thresholds Sensory Adaptation Vision The Stimulus Input: Light Energy The Eye Visual Information Processing Color Vision Hearing The Stimulus Input: Sound Waves The Ear Hearing Loss and Deaf Culture Other Important Senses Touch Pain Taste Smell Perceptual Organization Form Perception Depth Perception Motion Perception Perceptual Constancy Perceptual Interpretation Sensory Deprivation and Restored Vision Perceptual Adaptation Perceptual Set Perception and the Human Factor Is There Extrasensory Perception? Claims of ESP Premonitions or Pretensions? Putting ESP to Experimental Test Sensation Perception How do we construct our representations of the external world? To represent the world, we must detect physical energy (a stimulus) from the environment and convert it into neural signals. This is a process called sensation. When we select, organize, and interpret our sensations, the process is called perception. Bottom-up Processing Analysis of the stimulus begins with the sense receptors and works up to the level of the brain and mind. Top-Down Processing Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes as we construct perceptions, drawing on our experience and expectations. Making Sense of Complexity Our sensory and perceptual processes work together to help us sort out complex images. Sensing the World Senses are nature’s gift that suit an organism’s needs. A frog feeds on flying insects; a male silkworm moth is sensitive to female sex-attractant odor; and we as human beings are sensitive to sound frequencies that represent the range of human voice. Exploring the Senses What stimuli cross our threshold for conscious awareness? Psychophysics A study of the relationship between physical characteristics of stimuli and our psychological