PSY 113 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Opponent Process, Detection Theory, Sine Wave
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Psychophysics relates the characteristics of the physical stimulus to the sensory experiences they produce. When you measure the amount of light in quanta needed to just detect the presence of the light, this called: The observation that the strength of a sensation is proportional to the logarithm of the physical stimulus intensity is called: The decision criteria a person adopts cannot be dealt with in signal detection theory. There are four possible outcomes in a signal detection theory experiment. False alarms happen more often if a person"s decision criteria is: In order for a sensory system to send information to the brain, the first important step must be: Transduction of the stimulus into a neural signal. "labeled lines" refers to the fact that visual information is signaled with activity in the optic nerve tract and auditory information is signaled by activity in the auditory nerve tract, and so on for other sensory modalities.
