PSYCH 1XX3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Species 2000, Sound, Depth Perception

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1XX3
• Professor: Joe Kim

Document Summary

If sound is the result of our own sensory processing, we could argue that if no one was around to hear the falling tree, then it would make no sound. The auditory system translates sound waves into audition. Just like the visual system can interpret light waves to collect information about stimuli in environment, the auditory system can translate sound waves from vibrating objects into psychological experience of audition. Trees make sound waves, but auditory systems make audition. This means that falling tree would produce sound waves but the sound waves themselves do not make sound unless an auditory system is present to translate those waves into perceptual experience of audition. Unit 2 : the auditory mechanisms of different species. Auditory mechanisms vary across different species according to specific needs: where they live in water/land/air, whether they need to communicate over long distances, whether they need to be able to receive high/low frequency sounds.