Sensation

Touch
* receptors located in our skin
* Gate Control Theory of Pain
* the spinal cord a neuralogical gate that blocks, pain signals, or allows them to pass on to the brain

Vestibular Sense
* tells us where our body is oriented in spac
*Our sense of balance

Kinesthetic Sense
* Tells us where our body parts are.
* Receptirs locate in our muscles and joints.

Perception
* the process or organizing and interpreting information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events.

Gestalt Philosophy
* the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

Figure Ground Relationships
* The organization of the visual field into objects (figures)
That stand out from their surroundings

Grouping
* The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into groups that we understand

Depth Perception
* the ability to see objects in three dimenstions although the images that strike the retina are two dimesional
* allows us to judge distance

*visual cliff

Binocular Cues
* Rentinal Disparity: a binocular cue for seeing depth
* the closer an object comes to you the greater the dispairty is between the two images