[Psychology 2015A/B] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (22 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2015A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

The process of recognizing and interpreting sensory stimuli. Also includes how we respond to the information. Think of perception as a process, take in sensory information from the environment, and use that information to interact with our environment. Allows us to take the sensory information in and make it into something meaningful. Everything you see, hear, taste, feel, smell, is the result of the activity in your nervous system and your knowledge gained from the past experience. It is the conscious experience that results from the stimulation of the senses. Study perception can help you become more aware of the nature of your own perceptual experiences. 1 of the themes: perception depends on the properties of the sensory receptors. We tend to organize stimuli into a central or foreground figure and a background. The central figure is usually in front of or on top of what we perceive to be the background.