SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
BASIC CONCEPTS OF SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
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Question
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When a person rubs an elbow after smacking it into a table, that person is
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creating competition between pain and non-pain impulses
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focusing attention toward the pain.
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decreasing non-pain impulses in the area.
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increasing pain impulses in the area
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Sensory adaptation: diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation.
Detailed explanation-2: -There are six individual principles commonly associated with gestalt theory: similarity, continuation, closure, proximity, figure/ground, and symmetry & order (also called prägnanz).
Detailed explanation-3: -Weber’s law: states that for an average person to perceive a difference, two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion, not a constant amount.
Detailed explanation-4: -After our brain receives the electrical signals, we make sense of all this stimulation and begin to appreciate the complex world around us. This psychological process-making sense of the stimuli-is called perception.
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