1. Richard Griggs Psychology: A Concise Introduction, 3rd Edition
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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2. Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
I. How the Physical World Relates to the Psychological World
A. The Detection Question
1. Absolute Threshold
2. Signal Detection Theory
B. The Difference Question
1. Weber’s Law
C. The Scaling Question
1. Stevens’s Power Law

3. Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
II. How We See and How We Hear
A. How the Eye Works
1. The Structure of the Retina
2. Rods and Cones
B. How We See Color
1. Trichromatic Theory of Color Vision
2. Opponent-Process Theory of Color Vision
C. How the Ear Works
D. How We Distinguish Pitch

4. Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
III. How We Make Sense of What We See
A. Bottom-up Processing and Top- down Processing
B. Perceptual Organization and Perceptual Constancy
C. Depth Perception