PSY100H1 Study Guide - Retina, Absolute Threshold, Detection Theory
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in order to perceive, we rely on our sense organs-eyes, ear, skin, nose, tongue. we are only sensitive to limited stimuli. Ways we experience the world into 2 phases: sensation and perception. sensation: how our sense organs respond to and detect external stimulus energy, and how those responses are transmitted to the brain. perception: brain"s further processing of these signals that ultimately results in an internal representation of stimuli and conscious experience of the world. construction of useful and meaningful info about the environment. Green light emits photo sensed by eye and transmit signal to brain (cid:0) sensation(cid:0) Brain processes neural signals and observer experiences a green light (perception) Study of bodily systems that convert stimulus energy into useful info. Stimuli must be coded to be understood by the brain. different physical environment coded by diff patterns of neural impulses.
