AHSS*1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Synesthesia, Gestalt Psychology, Absolute Threshold
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Overall process of sensing, understanding, identifying, recognizing, and reacting to our environments. A system that controls all of the activites of the body. The nervous system is made of: the brain. Our sense organs carry messages about the environment to the central nervous systemvisual, audition, touch, olfaction, gustation. Certain neurons are specialty sensory receptors that transform certain type of sensations neural energy. A stimulus is a change in the environment. The translation of one form of energy into another (distal stimulus) Process by which sensations are organized and interpreted. The process of receiving information from the outside world, translating it, and transmitting it to the brain. Process by which we organize or make sense of our sensory impressions (proximal stimulus) The process of assigning meaning to perceptions. Involves higher level cognitive processes to determine what an object is, what it is called, and how we respond to it (how we select information, expectations, prior knowledge, memory)
