PSYC 2390 Lecture 1: CHAPTER 1 Notes
1 Aug 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The perceptual process: stimuli (steps 1 and 2, receptor processes/transduction (step 3, neural processing (step 4, behavioural responses (steps 5-7, knowledge. How to approach the study of perception. Measuring perception: measuring thresholds, estimating magnitude, beyond thresholds and magnitude. Threshold measurement can be influenced by how a person chooses to respond. Psyc2390 sensation and perception chapter 1: This process is a simplified version of what actually happens. First off, many things happen within each box . For example, we could go beyond tree to describe this environmental stimulus example: i. e. how the tree"s different parts reflect light in different ways (appears to have different colours, textures, shapes); can be viewed from different angles. Complexity like the one above is more obvious for boxes like neural processing . Second reason that the process is simplified is that steps in the perceptual process do not always unfold in a one-follows-the-other order. Environmental stimulus the stimulus out there, in the external environment.
