PSYC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sensory Neuron, Psychological Dependence, Red Color
27 Nov 2017
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The belief that a drug is necessary to maintain a feeling of emotional or psychological well-being. What kind of cognitive e ect is this: placebo e ect. Studying the brain: online lectures for rest of chapter, watch. Stimulation of our sense organs by features of the outer world. The activation of sensory receptors by external physical stimulus energy: sensory receptors. : analysis begins w/sense receptors that send pieces of information up to the brain, which then puts all the pieces together to create a meaning, sensation transducer a physical signal into a neural impulse. Conversion of that energy into a neural impulse: perception. Created by your brain: designed to nd meaningful patterns to make sense of what we experience, ex: what shape is that cloud? , ex: pu the illusionary dragon. Depth inversion e ect: our visual system assumes objects are conveys, especially for more familiar things, like faces.
