Psychology 1000 Lecture 5: Chapters 5-8 Atkinson

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Mysterious condition where people may experience sounds as colours, or tastes as touch that has different shapes. We may be born like this because infants neural pathways are fairly undifferentiated. The stimulus detection process by which our sense organs respond to and translate environmental stimuli into nerve impulses that are sent to the brain. Making sense of what our senses tell us. The active process of organizing this stimulus input and giving it meaning. The circumstances that form the setting that helps to make terms in which it can be understood. Contact with the outer world is only possible because certain neurons have developed into specialized sensory receptors that can transform these energy forms into the code language of nerve impulses. Pressure, pain, temperature: gustation (taste, olfaction (smell) Studies the relation between physical stimulus and psychological response. Can determine a just noticeable difference (jnd) (turn up the lights a tiny bit, we notice change)