Sensation & Perception
Sensation & Perception
Sensation & Perception
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Threshold<br />
More definitions to know<br />
The point at which a receptor starts responding and<br />
does so at least 50% of the time.<br />
Habituation<br />
The point at which a receptor stops responding to an<br />
unchanging stimuli.<br />
This happens in all of the senses<br />
Early psychophysicists tried to reduce S & P to a<br />
group of “laws” of psychological processes.