Essay On Sensory Receptor

- When sensory receptor is stimulated it tends to produce neural impulses, which is interpreted as sound by the brain. This is referred as sensation while perception when one interprets and organizes information into a something meaningful by the aid of brain. When these two processes occur sensation is converted to a perception. Perception can be said to be interpretation of mental process to give meaning to sensation.
- Priming is process by which stimulus influences a response to later stimulus due to implicit memory effect.
- Absolute threshold is when stimulation is in it minimum amount which is required to bring about sensory experience.
- Feature capture is a cell located in cerebral cortex which takes certain features of a stimulus.
- Binocular cues are subdivision of perception and relay on the use of both eyes.
- Classical condition is an involuntary and automatic behavior while operant condition is centered on voluntary behavior. Social learning is where one learns through others attitudes and behavior.
- John B Watson was the founder of school of behaviorism which played a role in American psychology. Ivan Pavlov was a priest.
- Acquisition is first stage of learning when a response is initially established and strengthen while extinction is when there is occurrences of a conditioned response disappear.
- Generalization is when conditioned stimuli evoke similar response after response conditioned. While discrimination is differentiating between conditioned stimulus and other stimuli have not been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
- Punishment is operant conditioning which referred to change which occurs after behavior that lowers likelihood of behavior occurring again.
- Attachment is special emotional relationship that includes exchange of comfort, pleasure and care. Distinguishing characteristics are safe haven, secure base, and proximity maintenance and separation distress. Secure attachment in childhood can show insecure attachment styles in adulthood.
- Critical period is where by if one misses the period one acquires the specific development characteristics while sensitive period is easier to acquire that characteristic.
- Piaget’s stages include the formal operational stage (12 years), concrete operational stage (7-11 yrs.), preoperational stage (2-6 yrs.) and sensorimotor (0-2 yrs.). Harry Harlow was an American psychologist he explored love’s nature.
- 5 stages of Loss and Grief are denial and isolation, bargaining, anger, depression and acceptance.
- Cognitive distortions are simply ways that our mind convinces us of something that isn’t really true.
- Parenting styles involves permissive parenting, authoritative parenting, uninvolved parenting and authoritarian parenting.
- "Strange Situation" The study of observing children between 12-18 months responding to a state in which they were temporarily left alone and later united with their mother.
- Maturation is learning process where by one cope and reacts in an emotionally appropriate way.
- Subliminal stimulation the stimuli get in our system without being aware of it.