PSYC 303- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 29 pages long!)

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 303
• Professor: Thomas Spalek

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So depending on your knowledge and experiences, youre essentially going to change that stimulus, and lead to another perception. So previous experiences with certain stimuli, change that processing so that your perception automatically sees things a certain way. So if scenarios are given, it can bias the perception to make you see something that goes with the scenario. When you are interpreting information, it is going to be interpreted in light of information that you have. Depending on what context you are put in, what you see changes: neuron anatomy: 1. What preserves the neuron and gives the neuron all the nutrients and lets it run, has all the information processing. It essentially the pooling point for all the information that comes in from the dendrites. Myelin: many neurons in the brain also contain a fatty covering on the axon, known as a myelin sheath and that speeds up the conduction of the action potential across the axon.