PSYC-3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Social Desirability Bias, Eardrum, Visual Acuity

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC-3060
• Professor: Jorgensen

Document Summary

2) decision processes: 1) hit, 2) miss, 3) false alarm, 4) correct rejection. Sensory adaptation: decline in sensitivity due to prolonged stimulation (sensory receptors get tighter, sometimes body does not adapt2 situations, 1) intense stimuli, 2) visual stimuli. Peak-end theory: peak and end of experiences play a larger subjective role (movie ends scary with one horror scene is scarier than movie that"s moderately scary whole way through) How we see colors: cones & rods, cones-color and daylight vision. Sharpest visual acuity rods-peripheral and night vision: trichromatic theory says 3 types of cones (rgb, opponent-process theory, when one color is switched on the opposing color is switched off. Black/white: after image-when you look somewhere and see other colors. Perceptual processes: gestalt, top down vs. bottom up. Depth & distance perception interpretation of visual cues to indicate how near or far an object is: two types, binocular depth cues-use two eyes.