PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Temporal Lobe, Unconscious Mind, Absolute Threshold
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Lecture 11 hippocampus prepares you for next life or death situation linked to sympathetic nervous system. Sensation and perception; subliminal perception: weber flashback! Or gustef fectner; interested in perception- these people tried to understand how we perceived the world. After fraud; a lot of people went back to the study of mind, vaber; when. Occipital lobe; where vision input, temporal lobe; sound is input, parital lobe; input of the body. People want to know about sensitivity questions; 2 different ways of measuring thresholds. For example; show something they say yes but also answer no the third time. Sdt; the logic step 1 can plot someone"s hit rate vs their false alarm rate- saying yes when there is something there and saying yes when their isn"t something there. Line is where hits= false alarms; imagine you did this experiment blind folded, different points represent different people"s willingness to say yes.
