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Contents<br />

ix<br />

Part 3<br />

Modes of Awareness<br />

Chapter 5<br />

Sensory Processes 121<br />

AWARENESS OF STIMULATION 122<br />

The Detection Question 122<br />

The Discrimination Question 123<br />

Signal-Detection Theory 125<br />

TRADITIONAL SENSES 126<br />

Visual Ability 126<br />

Capacity for Hearing 130<br />

Sense of Smell 132<br />

Taste Sensations 134<br />

Sensitivities of the Skin 135<br />

PROPRIOCEPTIVE SENSES 137<br />

Kinesthesis 137<br />

Sense of Balance 138<br />

Passive Motion 139<br />

SENSATION AND PERCEPTION 140<br />

Intersensory Perception 140<br />

Extrasensory Perception 141<br />

Chapter 6<br />

Perception and Consciousness<br />

147<br />

PROBLEM OF ATTENDING 148<br />

State of the Perceiver 149<br />

Stimulus Characteristics 150<br />

ORGANIZING THE PERCEPTUAL<br />

FIELD 151<br />

Figure-Ground Relationships 152<br />

Perceptual Constancy 154<br />

MAKING AN INTERPRETATION 156<br />

Space Perception 156<br />

Awareness of Movement 159<br />

Problem of Illusions 160<br />

Obstacles in Person Perception 163<br />

ALTERED STATES OF AWARENESS<br />

Practice of Meditation 164<br />

Drug-Induced States 166<br />

Hypnotic Condition 167<br />

PERCEPTION AND LEARNING 170<br />

164

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