PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Retina, Far-Sightedness, Longwave
15 Mar 2017
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Karina da rosa: sensation and perception, sensation i. ii. iii. Process where our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energy. Types of processing: bottom-up, first you understand the stimulus and then you analyze, begins with sense receptors and proceeds to look into the brain"s integration of sensory information, top-down a. Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes: construction of known perceptions drawing on our experiences and expectation iv. Basic principles: psychophysics, relationship between physical characteristics of stimuli and our psychological experience of them, examples i. ii. iii. iv. Taste is associated with - and sweetness v. Forgetting about an uncomfortable chair during a lecture: selective attention, focusing of consciousness on a particular stimulus, using signal detection theory to reduce unnecessary stimuli vi. Perception: process of organizing and interpreting sensory information allowing us to recognize meaningful objects and events, science of understanding what you feel about stimulation vii.
