01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sensory System, Thalamus, Stapes

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

Document Summary

Sensation is the conversion of energy from the environment into your nervous system. It is the stimulation of sensory organs - eyes, ears, skin, and the transmission of sensory info to the brain. It is the registering of info, it is energies that affect us. Is the process of organizing, integrating, interpreting that information, by which we understand sensory info. Illusions are examples of how we perceive info incorrectly. Sensations is the process by which our senses gather. A large amount of information is being senses at information and send it to the brain any one time such as room temperature, brightness of the lights, someone talking, a distant train, or the smell of perfume. How we make sense of what we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell. Sensation converts physical stimuli into patterns of nervous system responses. Perception refers to interpretation of what we take in through our senses.