PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sleep Deprivation, Delta Wave, Mind-Wandering

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Toni Serafini

Document Summary

Sensation: receiving, translating, and transmitting raw sensory data to brain. Selective attention: the idea that people can pay attention to only one thing or two things at the same time. For example, cocktail part effect, the stroop effect. Cocktail party effect- your able to attend to one conversation with one person while there are multiple conversations going on in the room. The stroop effect- word interferes with being able to read the color. The five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, touch. Humans derive more information through sight than any other sense. The visual system must see the environment in order for the information to be properly interpreted by the brain. Dark adaptation: increase sensitivity to light when illumination decreases. Light adaptation: adjustment that takes place when you go from darkness to a bright setting. Images appear on our retinas in 2-dimensional form yet we see 3-dimensional world. In order to perceive depths, we need cues: monocular cues (singular)