PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sensory Memory, Parenting Styles, Reinforcement
8 Apr 2016
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Sensaion: having the simulaion i have waves vibraing into my eras: percepion: when you"re able to name the speciic senses. Prosopagnosia video: the lady couldn"t recognize her children in the video. ******botom-up processing: simulus-driven processing since it"s driven by the physical features from the environment: most common iniial percepions. Ex: only immature people judge you since they"re looking at you w/ a dirty look. That"s why they"re senses are at the bottom-up! The mature people use experience which is why they"re at the top-down! ******top-down processing:*****: i thought i seen a duck . Ex: mature since it"s from higher level mental. Absolute threshold: think of the hearing test at the doctors/school nurses. And they"re asking/detecing what is the lowest volume you hear in order to raise your hand. Blind spot: where the opic nerve leaves the eye. Photoreceptors: sensory neurons for vision (they"re in the back of the reina: co nes: responsible for helping you see color & clarity/detail.
