PSYC 100 Lecture 8: Week 8 - Review Q's

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

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Thus, this mechanical pressure is registered by the receptor cells in your eye as light, not as touch. ???? (cid:224) physical energy to which a sensory receptor is especially tuned. even though the sensation feels direc and immediate, it is not: you perceive an object because your eye detects light energyreflected. Every sensory domain has an adequate stimulus type of by the object: sensory receptors traduce this energy into electrical signals that are carried along axons, cross synapses and ultimately interpreted by your brain. (cid:224)sensory adaptation: one of the reasons that we cannot sense all the energy in the world is that our brains are a finite size. It is one way to reduce the data that the brain needs to process without actually reducing the amount of information very much. ?: describe how physical characteristics correspond to psychological characteristics (cid:224)neural codes: the sensory system code information about stimuli in three different way.