PSYO 111 Midterm: Term Test 3 - Fall 2017

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 111
• Professor: Maya Libben

Document Summary

Perception: the organization, identification and interpretation of a sensation in order to form a mental representation. Transduction: when many sensors in the body convert physical signals from the environment into encoded neural signals sent to the central nervous system. Synthesia: the perceptual experience of one sense that is evoked by another sense o. Example: certain words/ letters have a certain color, numbers have textures, tastes have sounds: occurs in 1 out of 100 people, usually genetically linked fmri results provide corroborative evidence, brain regions for different sensory modalities cross-activate each other. Psychophysics: methods that measure the strength of a stimulus and the observer"s sensitivity to that stimulus. Experimentation is done by giving a person a stimulus and asking if they experienced it o. Threshold: boundary, or point at which the stimulus is perceived. Absolute threshold: the minimal intensity needed to just barely detect a stimulus: absolute threshold for sensation: sensing or not sensing o.