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Sensation, absolute threshold, Absolute Sensory Thresholds - Coggle Diagram
Sensation
Threshold
In order to establish laws about how people sense the external world, psychologists first try to determine how much of a stimulus is necessary for a person to sense it at all.
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these include the basic sense like Vision, Hearing, Smell, Touch, Taste
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Sensory Adaptation
The reduction or disappearance of sensory responsiveness when stimulation is unchanging or repetitious.
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Sensory adaptation allows us to notice differences in sensations and react to the challenges of different or changing stimuli.
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Signal-Detection Theyory
The signal-detection theory studies the relations between motivation, sensitivity, and decision making in detecting the presence or absence of a stimulus
Detection thresholds
Detection thresholds involve recognizing some stimulus against a background of competing stimuli, like a radar.
psychophysics
the goal of psychophysics is to understand how the stimulation from the world affect the sensory experience produced by them
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