PSYC 40445 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Isolation Tank, Sensory Deprivation, Achromatopsia
3 Jan 2019
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We use analogies because we do not know exactly how everything works, we can never. What happens when it gets into a sensory store. Answer: know for certain, we can have more data consistent with a model. Sensation: physiological processes associated with intake of sensory information. Perception: psychological processes involved in immediate organization and interpretation. Once information comes into our memory store, we need to know what the object/sound is, and once we know what it is, we can do higher level thinking with that information. If someone is unable to recognize something at the vaguest level agnosia. Could be general where the person does not recognize anything. Or more specific where they cannot recognize a face for example. Sensory deprivation tank, block out all other senses to cause hallucinations. Seeing the same person time and time again, they cannot decipher a face. Bottom-up processing: recognition is determined by evaluating stimuli elements in the moment.
