PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Neural Adaptation, Absolute Threshold, Binocular Disparity
28 Nov 2017
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Chapter 4 sensation and perception: how we sense and conceptualize the world. *only visual and auditory system will be on next exam: big picture . What we experience in our minds vs what is really happening in our bodies (brain) Our sensory, perceptual, and cognitive systems are complex, sophisticated and automatic. We typically do not notice much or any of what they are doing the cost: Processes that function the same way in almost every average person . Except for those with genetic variations, illness, brain damage or experts . The research tasks, demonstrations and illusions are not tests to asses people"s performance or tricks to fool people but they reveal how a sensory/perceptual process works most of the time: principles of stimulus detection: sensation vs perception. Sensation: detection of physical energy by the sensory organs. Each sense has sensory receptors, specialized cells (detect and respond to specific stimulus)
