Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes -Visual Impairment, Neuroglia, Morphine

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Sensory processes: experience sounds as colours, tastes as touch sensations with different shapes, women are more likely to experience this, activity in one part of the brain evokes responses in another part dedicated to another sensory modality, theory. Pruning of neural connections that occurs in infancy did not occur. Deficit to keep input from one sensory from inhibiting another sense and ends up stimulating it: binding problem: how do we bind all our perceptions into one while keeping sensory separate. Sensation: stimulus-detection process, sense organs respond to and translate environmental stimuli into nerve impulses that are sent to brain. Transduction - receptors translate stimulus properties into nerve impulses. Feature detectors: neurons break down, analyze features of stimuli once transduction occurs. Stimulus features are reconstructed into neural representation. Neural representation is compared with previously stored information in brain. Matching process results in recognition and interpretation of stimuli. Psychophysics relation between physical stimulus and psychological response.