PSYO 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hearing Test, Occipital Lobe, Optometry
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Psychophysics, light & vision (unit 2) lecture 10. Housekeeping: unit ((cid:1688)sensing and perceiving our world(cid:1689)) will cover chapters 4&5, 85% of material will be from textbook, 15% not in the textbook, all material from the class is important! It"s job is to recapitulate the world: sensory systems are experience-capturing devices. 1: perception involves biding these sensory impulses into a representation of the world. Mapping sensation and perception in the brain: tatjuji would treat patients who had experienced brain injury during the. Psychophysics: best way to describe it is by comparing it to other things, the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations/perceptions. People who wear glasses, contacts or, who has had an optometry exam: process of an optometrist asking you to read a board to test your vision is an example of real use of psychophysics. 2: you are looking at the relationship of the physical stimulus (the board) and how your eyes perceive it, psychophysicists study, detection, discrimination.