PSYCO367- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 43 pages long!)

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO367
• Professor: James Farley

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Conscious experience that results from stimulation of the senses. Identified with complex processes that involve higher-order mechanisms/brain functions. A sequence of steps (7) leading from the environment to perception of a stimulus, recognition of the stimulus, and action with regard to the stimulus. Figure is a simplified version of what happens: many things happen within each box, teps i(cid:374) the per(cid:272)eptual pro(cid:272)ess do(cid:374)(cid:859)t al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s u(cid:374)fold in a one-follows-the-other order. The arro(cid:449) fro(cid:373) (cid:862)a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:271)a(cid:272)k to the sti(cid:373)ulus tur(cid:374)s the process into a cycle. Sensation- often identified with elementary processes that occur at the beginning of a sensory system. Form a sharp image of the object on the receptors of the perso(cid:374)(cid:859)s retina (network of cells that cover the back of the eye and contain the receptors for vision) Sensory receptors- cells specialized to respond to environmental energy, (cid:449)ith ea(cid:272)h se(cid:374)sor(cid:455) s(cid:455)ste(cid:373)(cid:859)s re(cid:272)eptors specialized to respond to a specific type of energy (ex. visual, auditory, touch, etc. )