PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Taste Receptor, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Group C Nerve Fiber

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Stephanie Denison

Document Summary

Show someone a picture, and see very different things. Basic processes by which our sensory organs and nervous system respond to stimuli in the environment transforming physical stimuli into neural signals in the brain physical stimulus. The matter in the world that has effect on the sensory organs physiological response sensory experience. Sensation is what we take from our environment and translating it into neural signal. Physical characteristics of our stimuli + experience important concepts. Absolute threshold (detection threshold) - point of intensity at which a person ca just detect the presence of a stimulus. Different threshold - magnitude of the difference between two stimuli of differing intensities. transduction. We are designed to sense changes in environment more than the same thing. Informs us about what we should and shouldn"t eat. View pain as bodily event, not much from outside of us. Emotional aspect to it based on what ppl see.