PSYB51H3 Lecture Notes - Detection Theory, Ibm Officevision, Power Law
23 Jun 2012
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Our senses are products of evolution; senses came into existence to serve certain purposes such as survival; the flytrap could be argued to have behaviour; flytrap is a very primitive sensory motor system; Ben underwood, had cancer as a toddler and his eyes surgically removed; he could use echolocation; in principle, we can develop echolocation. Democritus- often depicted as the laughing philosopher; the world is made up of atoms that collide with one another; although, he was incorrect that all things had different types of atoms (nose atoms, wood atoms, etc. Sensory transducer: a receptor that converts physical energy from the environment into neural activity. Nativism- the idea that the mind produces ideas that are not derived from external sources; Plato- truest sense of reality comes from people"s minds and souls; there are certain things we cannot know from experience. Descartes" dualist view of the world; both mind and body exist; nativism usually goes with dualism (early on anyway)
