PSYCH101 Lecture 1: Psych Chp. 4.1

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

The process for detecting and translating the complex world into meaningful. Sensing the world around us experiences occurring in two stages: first step: sensation. The process of detecting external events by sense organs and turning those stimuli into neural signals. Neural impulses travel into the brain and influence activity of different brain structures, which ultimately gives rise to our internal representation of the world. Sensory receptors involved in transduction are different for different senses. All of our senses use the same mechanism for transmitting information in the brain: the action potential. In order to differentiate the many impulses traveling in the brain, it sends signals from different sensory organs to different parts of the brain. Perception is a skill that our brain learns through experience. Both sensory receptors and brain areas related to perception are extremely sensitive to change: ex.