PSYC 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Visual Acuity, Advantageous, Aerial Perspective
23 Aug 2016
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Lateralizaton of the cortex: broca"s aphasia- inability to produce speech, problems speaking, but not with compre- hension, frontal lobe, wernicke"s aphasia- inability to comprehend language, problems understanding what others say, temporal lobe, word salad a. Transduction translation of information from the environment in to neural signals a: each of our sense organs converts different information into neural signals which are all the same a. electromagnetic radiation, pressure, temperature, etc. 50% to confirm minimum amount of change in intensity for a difference to be detected- weber"s law- specific percentage of change must occur in order for the change to c. be detected c. a. same dot color- different background color. 8/23/16 d. bottom up processing- ex: seeing a dog out of dots. Signal detection theory idea that signals are embedded in noise, so to deter a signal it must be distinguished a. from the noise a. two step process- a. a. sensitivity of stimulus and criteria.
