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What is the process of receiving, converting, and transmitting raw sensory information from the external and internal environments to the brain?
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Sensation
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What is the process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting sensory information?
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Perception
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What is the process of converting a stimulus to a receptor into neural impulses?
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Transduction
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What are the three types of processing?
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Transdunction
Sensory reduction Coding |
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What is the process of filtering and analyzing incoming sensations before sending a neural message to the cortex?
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Sensory reduction
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What is the process that converts a particular sensory input into a specific sensation?
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Coding
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What is the study of the relation between attributes of the physical world and our psychological experiences of them?
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Psychophysics
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What is the smallest amount of a stimulus needed to detect that the stimulus is present?
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Absolute threshold
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What is the minimal difference needed to notice a stimulus change?
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Difference threshold or “just noticeable difference”
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What is the term used to describe repeated or constant stimulation that decreases the number of sensory messages sent to the brain, which causes decreased sensation?
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Sensory adaptation
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