PSYC 1000 Chapter 5: Readings for Quiz 5

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Module 4. 1 sensation and perception at a glance. All of the sensory info is relayed to the brain, where perception occurs: perception, involves attending to, organizing and interpreting stimuli that we sense. Includes recognizing the sounds as a human voice and understanding that certain colours, shapes, and motion together make up the image of a human being walking toward you. As children age, the pathways in their brains become more distinct, with less useful connections being pruned away. Thus, perception is a skill that our brains learn through experience: transduction, when specialized receptors transform the physical energy of the outside world into neural impulses. The brain must be able to separate different sensory signals from one another so that we can experience distinct sensations (e. g. , sight and touch). This is accomplished by sending signals from different sensory organs to different parts of the brain. German physiologists johannes muller came up with the idea, doctrine of.