PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Retina
19 Feb 2017
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PSYCH1010 CHAPTER 4
1. Distinction Between Sensation and Perception
a) Sensation (end of chapter 4, list of senses):
- Based on activity of the sense receptors
- Definition: How physical energy is transformed into neural impulses (E.g. Light =
Wavelengths ---- Hit retina ---- Transformed into sight by the brain
- Primarily Bottom-Up processing: From the outer world, the senses, to the brain
b) Perception:
- Elaboration, transformation, interpretation of what is registered by the senses
- Assignment of MEANING to sensory experiences
- Top-down process: Subjective contours (p.148)
The Role of Interpretation
You see the world that you have made
- But you do not see yourself as the image maker.
What will your experience of the world be?
- What images will you focus on?
2. Perceptual Organization
a) Visual Capture:
- Sight has pre-eminence over other senses
b) Form Perception:
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Psych1010 chapter 4: distinction between sensation and perception, sensation (end of chapter 4, list of senses): Based on activity of the sense receptors. Definition: how physical energy is transformed into neural impulses (e. g. Wavelengths ---- hit retina ---- transformed into sight by the brain. Primarily bottom-up processing: from the outer world, the senses, to the brain: perception: Elaboration, transformation, interpretation of what is registered by the senses. You see the world that you have made. But you do not see yourself as the image maker. What images will you focus on: perceptual organization, visual capture:
