01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Blind Spot, Gestalt Psychology, Presbyopia

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Lawrence Jacobs

Document Summary

Ex. when you touch something, receptors send impulses that travel to spinal cord & then to the brain for interpretation. Sensation is the process by which our senses gather information and send it to the brain. Sensation converts physical stimuli into patterns of nervous systems responses. See, dark (cid:494)the blind spot(cid:495) - there are no receptor cells where the optic nerve leaves the eye. Transmit, air, frequency, amplitude, hertz (hz), pitch, loudness, perception, cochlea, Taste receptors: traditionally the view from western medicine has held that there are four primary tastes - sweet, sour, salty, and bitter, umami. Gestalt is the branch of psychology that explains how humans integrate visual information and make meaningful interpretations of our visual worlds. Gestalt: explanation: while the picture appears to be a random series of abstract black spots, it is actually a picture of a dog drinking.