PSYCO367 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mental Chronometry, Exponentiation, Electric Shock
2 May 2014
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Perceptual process: is a sequence of processes that work together to determine our experience of and reaction to stimuli in the environment. Stimulus: what is out there in the environment. Electricity: electrical signals that are created by the receptors and transmitted to the brain. Experience and action: our goal to perceive, recognize and react to the stimuli. Knowledge: knowledge we bring to the perceptual situation. Environmental stimulus: all the things in our environment that we can potentially perceive. Attended stimulus: when you focus on something, making if the center of attention. Focusing attention of a moth creates an image of the moth and its immediate surroundings onto the receptors of her retina (0. 4mm thick network of light sensitive receptors and other neurons that line the back of the eye) The moth has been transformed into an image, we can describe this image as a representation of the moth.
