| A | B |
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| Sensation | occurs when a stimulus activates a recepto |
| Perception | organization of information into a meaningful experience |
| Psychophysics | Study of the relationship between sensation and perception |
| Absolute Threshold | minimum amount of a change in stimulus to be detectable |
| Difference Threshold | Smallest change that can be detected between two stimuli |
| Weber's Law | The larger or stronger the stimuli, the more it takes to sense a change. |
| Signal Detection Theory | studies the combination of motivation, sensation, and decision-making |
| selective detection | Process of Discriminating between what is Important and what is irrelevant |
