Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Frontal Lobe, Simple Cell, Occipital Lobe
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Humans have a predisposition to put random things into patterns. This phenomenon is called pareidolia; it means that we impose patterns on random stimuli. Faces in cliffs, in clouds, in toast; we see things and assign something to nothing. Sensation; our sense organ"s detection of , and response to, external stimulus energy. Perception; the brain"s processing of detected signals that results in intern representations of stimuli. An example of this is the phantom limb; many people who have amputations may still be able to perceive their limbs, and even have pain in these limbs. Even babies who are born without a limb, have a basic matrix in their brain that knows where their limbs should be. Phantom limbs sometimes go away, other times they do not. When you sense something, but don"t perceive it, this is also possible, and common; the feeling of sitting in a chair, for example, because you are focused on a lecture.
