Chapter 5 0.0 / 5 ? Psychology5UniversityNone Created by: Holly ThurstonCreated on: 03-08-16 21:09 Our knowledge of the world stems from the .... and .... Accumulation of sensory experience, subsequent learning 1 of 10 All sensory experiences are the result of ... from .... that is ... into ... of ...., which are .... Energy, events, transduced, activity, receptors, specialised neurons 2 of 10 Transduction causes changes in the activity of ... of ...., and these changes in activity inform the .... of the brain about the environmentalevent Axons, sensory nerves, sensory mechanisms 3 of 10 The information received from the receptors is transmitted to the brain by means of two coding schemes: Anatomical coding and temporal coding 4 of 10 Define anatomical coding Different sensations are coded by which incoming nerve fibres are active 5 of 10 Define temporal coding Intensity of a sensation is encoded by the rate of axons firing 6 of 10 In nineteenth-century Germany, ...devised the concept of the ... (jnd), and used the jnd to measure the ... Weber, just-noticeable difference, Fechner, magnitude of sensations 7 of 10 The methods of ... apply to all sensory modalities, including sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch Psychophysics 8 of 10 The ... and ...of the eyes cast an image of the scene on the ..., which contains .... :... and ... Cornea, lens, retina, photoreceptors, rods, cones 9 of 10 Cones gather visual information under ... conditions; rods work only when the light is ... Illuminated, very dim 10 of 10
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