PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Subliminal Stimuli, Introspection Illusion, Visual Cortex

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Week four psyc*1000 introduction to psychology september 27th. Two stages of detecting and translating meaningful experience: sensation the first step is sensation, the process of detecting external events by sense organs and turning those stimuli into neural signals. Perception involves attending to, organizing, interpreting stimuli that we sense: recognizing the sound as a human voice, understanding colours, shapes, etc. Transduction when specialized receptors transform the physical energy of the outside world into neural impulses. Detection of sensory organs where information is processed. Doctrine of specific nerve energies different sense is separated in the brain: table 4. 1 on page 132 (stimuli affecting our major sense) Sensory adaption reduction of activity in sensory receptors due to repeated exposure: allows us to adjust to our surroundings and shift our focus to other events. Psychophysics the field of study that explores how physical energy such as light and sound and their intensity relate to psychological experience.