Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-8: Sound, Visual Cortex, Auditory Cortex
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Synesthesia: mixing of the senses" may experience sound as colors or tastes and touch sensations: women more likely to be synaesthetes than men. Sensory receptors must translate stimuli information into nerve impulses for body to understand process of transduction. Special neurons called feature detectors break down and analyze specific features of stimuli. Sensation: stimulus-detecting process by which our sense organs respond to and translate environmental stimuli into nerve impulses that are sent to brain. Perception: making sense" of what our senses tell us active process od organizing stimulus input and giving it meaning. Transduction: process whereby characteristics of a stimulus are converted into nerve impulses. Can change depending on fatigue, expectation and potential significance of stimulus: signal detection theory: concerned with factors that influence sensory judgments. Difference threshold: the small difference between two stimuli that people can perceive 50% of the time also called jnd (just noticeable difference)