PSYA01H3 Lecture 12: Subliminal Perception
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Module 4. 1: sensation and perception at a glance. The process of detecting and translating the world into meaningful experiences occurs in two stages: sensation: the process of detecting external events by sense organs and turning those stimuli. Friday october 16th, 2015 lec 12 - 1 into neural signals: perception: involves attending to, organizing, and interpreting stimuli that we sense. Perception is a skill of our brains learn through experience. Transduction: when specialized receptors transform the physical energy of the outside world into neural impulses. Doctrine of specific nerve energies: theory by johannes m ller which states that different senses are separated in the brain. Sensory adaption: the reduction of activity in sensory receptors with repeated exposure to a stimulus, ex. The sound of traffic outside the window becomes less annoying/distracting as time passes. Recall fechner and psychophysics: the study of how physical energy (ex. Light, sound) and their intensity relate to psychological experience.
