PSY280H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Occipital Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Frontal Lobe
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Why read this book: studying perception can help in a medical sense, it can aid in restoring senses to those who have lost them. Stimuli (steps 1 and 2: perceptual process: a sequence of steps leading from the environment to perception of a stimulus, recognition of a stimulus, and action with regard to the stimulus. 7 steps in the perceptual process: 1) environmental stimulus 2) light is reflected and transformed 3) receptor processes 4) neural processing 5) perception 6) recognition 7) Action (3-7 are a bi-directional pathway): at times, these steps can co-occur or happen in reverse direction (recognition before perception). Information from an object is carried by light, which gets reflected from the tree, travels through the atmosphere, and focuses on the eye"s optical system. Each of these steps involves light being transformed in one way or another: eye"s optical system involves the cornea at the front of the eye and the lens directly behind it.
