PSY 105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hypnosis, Gestalt Psychology, Prosopagnosia
8 Feb 2018
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A subjective experience of an aspect of a sense other than the one being stimulated. A b c d e - usual appearance. A b c d e - appearance to a person with synesthesia. Jimmi hendrix had a form of this and when played a chord on the guitar, he"d see a colour (ex. his song purple haze) Brain regions for different sensory modalities cross- activate each other. Sensation: the act of using our sensory systems to detect environmental stimuli. Sensory receptor cells: specialized cells that convert a speci c form of environmental stimuli into neural impulses. Sensory transduction: the process of converting a speci c form of sensory data into a neural impulse that our brain can read. Absolute threshold is the smallest amount of a stimulus that one can detect. The difference between sensing and not sensing. Just noticeable difference (jnd): the minimal change in a stimulus that can just barely be detected.
