Sensation:
the neural activity triggered by a stimulus activating a sensory receptor
Sensory nerve impulses travel along sensory ____ ____ to the ____.
- brain
Perception:
- taking info from sensory system and making sense of it
Perception includes…. of information received.
Identical ____ can yield different _____.
- perceptions
Visual development steps:
Infants have _____ _____ vision.
functionally useful
By ___ ____ of age, vision is adequate for locomotion through the environment.
6 months
Acuity:
sharpness of sight
Early on there is a very rapid phase of increasing acuity during the ____ ____ and then it ____ ____.
- slows down
Declines in vision have implications for…
- everyday living tasks
Presbyopia affects ability to…
see nearby images (can be corrected with lenses)
Older adults need more ____ in _____ environments because…
Symptoms of visual problems (any age):
Visual perception involves perception of:
Perception of space requires perception of _____ and _____.
- distance
For perception of space, information can come from:
Retinal disparity:
optic flow:
Motion parallax:
Infants have mechanics for _____ _____ and ____ _____.
- motion parallax
By 6 months, infants perceive ______.
depth
Depth perception is refined to adult-like levels in _____.
adolescence
Object attributes: