PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Subliminal Stimuli, Retina, Cornea

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Geoff Hollis

Document Summary

Note: read audation, taste and smell, skin and body. (p151-160) Our experience of the world, our subjective experience, (perception), tends to corospond to things our sense organs detect (stimulus). How we experience something will depend on how our sense organs are stimulated (sensation) Color, pain, taste, etc are experiences that are elicited by our sense organs being stimulated. There is no such thing as "colour", only photons which strike our eye which our brains then percieve as light of various hues. It is possible to have without sensation (eye"s blindspot. internal monolouge), and vice- it is possible to have sensations without perception (distraction, advertising, anesthesia) Providing subliminal inputs is limited in effect, however there are indicators that behaviour can be slightly altered. Physiological properties of the eye and physical properties of light play a role in how our visual system works. (camera obscura, inverted. The focusing power of a camera onscura is related to its aperature.