PSYC 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Limen, Absolute Threshold, Occipital Lobe

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2220
• Professor: Laurie Wilcox

Document Summary

Psyc 2220 lecture 1: stage 1 : environmental stimulus, stage 2 : light is reflected and transferred. Image of contact falling at the back of the eye: stage 3 : receptor processing. Response of receptors at the back of the eye: stage 4 : neural processing. Receptors sending their signals to neurons in the brain which networks processing information and allowing you to perceive it: stage 5 : perception. Btw stage 5 and 6 we have the interaction btw perceiving something and recognizing: stage 6 : recognition, stage 7 : action. * * bubble indicates knowledge involved with the stages ( 5/6) Environmental stimuli are all objects in the environment are available to the observer. The stimulus and the perception of that stimulus are not the same, there has been a transformation from the stimulus ( tree) , to electromagnetic energy ( light) , to electrical signals ( neural firing) .