Sensation

• Sensation


  The product of the interaction between information and the sensory receptors—the eyes, ears, tongue, nostrils, and skin.
• Perception


  The interpretation of what is sensed.
• Depth Perception


  Ability to perceive objects and surfaces three-dimensionally.
• Haptic perception


  Ability to acquire information about properties of objects, such as size, weight, and texture, by handling them.
• Visual cliff 


  An apparatus designed to investigate depth perception, particularly in infants and young animals. It's a clever and simple setup that has yielded valuable insights into how creatures perceive and navigate the world around them.
• Affordances


  Opportunities for interaction offered by objects that fit within our capabilities to perform functional activities.
• Visual preference method


  A method used to determine whether infants can distinguish one stimulus from another by measuring the length of time they attend to different stimuli.
• Habituation


  A form of learning where our response to a stimulus weakens with repeated exposure. In simpler terms, it's how our brains get used to things and stop paying close attention to them.
• Dishabituation, also sometimes called dehabituation, is all about our brains and how they respond to familiar things in a new way. It's like when you get used to a background noise, but when it stops, you suddenly realize how quiet it is.
• Size constancy


  The recognition that an object remains the same even though the retinal image of the object changes as you move toward or away from the object.
• Shape constancy


  The recognition that an object’s shape remains the same even though its orientation to us changes.
• Intermodal perception - The ability to relate and integrate information from two or more sensory modalities, such as vision and hearing.