PSYC 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Stanley Coren, Subliminal Stimuli, Neural Adaptation
27 Sep 2016
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Right-handedness is prevalent across cultures: genetics: newborns and fetuses, environment: cultural pressures. 2000 baseball player: right > left (8 months of living more) Can you ever step in the same lake twice? no. Process that detects stimuli from our bodies and the environment. Process that organizes those sensations into meaningful patterns . You can perceive of and organize sounds as words and language. Transduction (encoding): wake up and smell the coffee. Enters ear, ear drum vibrates, fluid filled membrane vibrates, causes waves, cilia move and go to nerve. Dual roots of psych: philosophy and natural science. Relation between physical characteristics of a stimulus and the experience they produce. Vision- a flame 30 miles away, dark, midnight. Hearing watch ticking 20 feet away, quiet place. Min. amount of additional sugar to say your coffee is sweeter. Weber-fechner law: amount of change needed for a jnd is proportional to the original stimulus. Weight (1:50) (has to be 1lb to notice on 50lb)
