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AP Psychology 1.1 Sensation and Perception. The process by which the brain can turn sensory stimuli from the outside world into electrical signals that it can process is called what?

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Thank you We sneak in and his you're shmoop du

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jour brought to you by sensory stimuli like appearance odor

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taste touch and hearing thie effects of which can increase

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tenfold with the presence of a single cobbler there All

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right the process by which the brain can turn sensory

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stimuli from the outside world into electrical signals that it

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can process is called what And here are potential answers

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adaption had situation transected i was starting from the top

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let's to find a sensory adaptation otherwise known as neural

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adaptation This is when century receptors change their sensitivity to

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a specific stimulus over time An example of this would

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be that if a toddler happened to spit right in

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your hand yeah initially you'll feel that sticky gross potentially

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snotty spit right in your hand but after a few

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seconds despite the spit still being there you'd stop really

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feeling the spit as much as you did in the

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first initial seconds So while you can think sensory adaptation

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for saving you from prolonged lu gi suffering this is

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not the answer we're looking for But seriously go wash

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your hands that's just gross Similarly if that toddler screeched

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as loudly as possible you'd probably react in one way

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or another Rage tears a looky right back at him

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on that show it's really up to you But if

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he kept screeching over and over again you'd eventually stop

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responding to it Well this is described a century have

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pichu ation like you get in the habit of not

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responding to it which in simpler terms is when an

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organism learns to stop responding to a stimulus once it's

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deemed irrelevant Tell that to us when a car alarm

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goes off at four a m though it go skinny

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for the early darn relevant no matter how long it's

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going off anyway Useful Sure it's still not our answer

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So say you finally convinced the kid to give you

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some quiet time While you're basking in the peace and

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quiet you begin to notice him sniffling every so often

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snowed out related to that loopy from earlier Well at

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first he tried to ignore it but for long all

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you can focus on is that Yeah That's called sensitization

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It's When you experience an increased response in this case

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annoyance or anger or a burning desire to destroy things

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to repeated stimulus in this case those terrible awful insufferable

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sniffles terrible you know but also not our answer And

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at least we know our four am car alarm Rage

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is justified Well let's check our remaining option c and

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eat We all know what electrocution is It's What happens

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when you stick metal objects in an electrical socket It's

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definitely not what our brains do on the daily So

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cross out See that just leaves us with e trans

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duck hsi in the process of converting outside stimuli and

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converting or trans deuce ing it into electrical signals that

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we can understand For instance your eyes gather a series

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of light waves that the cells in your eyes then

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convert into the perceived colors shapes and sizes that formed

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the meal you just cooked as it flies directly from

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the toddlers hands into your face Well hey better the

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meal than the looky right So is the answer And

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now if we could only find the right way to

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deal with sensory stimuli overload caused by that car line

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Well we're pretty sure it's not hitting the car with

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a hammer But don't knock it till you try it

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