PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, Parietal Lobe, Occipital Lobe

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Feature detectors (analyzes all of the features shown, your brain pull everything together) Sensations go to your central nervous system, your brain identi es what you are seeing and helps interpret, take in info from senses, thru receptors, to your central nervous system, brain interprets it and you get a mental bulb) Transduction, converting physical senses, into neural code. All sensory objects are like eyes, audio, touch and taste and smell. No talk about smell and taste, no touch and talk about only 2 types of hearing. Psychophysics - when we take in sensory notations, what we perceive. Threshold is the rst initial time u hear it. No single xed value, below which you never hear it and above which you always hear it. You can usually detect it some percentage of the time. 50% of the time you can hear that slightest sound.