PSY 1101 Study Guide - Sensory Neuron, Psychophysics, Detection Theory
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If one of the three is missing there will be no sensation. Sensory receptors: found on highly specialized cells (deal with physical energy like sound waves. Do not deal with neural: they are the ones that detect, transmit and transduce. Other useful definitions: perception- the info that is sent to the brain that is sent by the senses. The brain organizes this info, integrate and interpret in a meaning way: bottom-up processing- type of procession where you start from the most basic elementary, bits of info and you build your way up. Perception) interpret the information through your knowledge, mood, assumptions, biases, past experiences. Not starting from scratch. (reading things tht are written badly) Prosopagnosia a person can see human faces, can describe the face however they cannot recognize familiar faces. Injury to the right temporal lopes: perception without sensation when hearing talking when no one is talking, measuring the senses.
