PSY10000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Exponentiation, Logarithm, Cornea
7 Nov 2017
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Not a form of sleep: discovered by anton mesmer. Built in excuse of i was under hypnosis . More susceptible to do actions because we have an excuse for our behavior: dissociative theory: Hidden observer: inactive part of the brain that is disengaged but still experiences: during hypnotic hallucinations, activation of the right anterior cingulate, area associated with attention control. : visual nerve stimulation >>> light: synesthesia: crossing of sensory pathways. See colors when hearing a sound: distal and proximal stimuli, distal: reflects or radiates energy (light, sound, heat) Interpret the stimuli as if something is there when it is not. Watching a movie and feeling like you are in the movie: proximal: affects the sensory organs directly, psychophysical principles, relating physical reality to mental experience, how does these two things correspond, detection principle: Absolute threshold: minimum amount of energy you can detect. Threshold of touch varies depending on body part: discrimination principle: This is a logarithmic function of sensation.
