[PSYC 2390] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (76 pages long!)

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This process begins with a stimulus in the environment (a tree) and ends with perceiving the tree. Distal stimulus: an object in the distance: light is re ected and focused. Light from the sun bounces off distal stimulus to the eye, cornea and lens these form a sharp image of the distal stimulus to the retina (proximal stimulus: receptor processes. Sensory receptors are specialized to respond to environmental energy. Audio receptors = pressure changes in the air: neural processing. 1)transmit signals from the receptors through the retina to the brain. 2) change or process these signals as they are transmitted. Electrical signals from each sense arrives at the primary receiving area in the cerebral cortex. Hearing = temporal lobe (middle bottom: perception. The electrical signals are transformed into conscious experience (the person perceives the tree)(conscious awareness of the tree: recognition. The person recognizes the tree (person categorizes this as a tree: action.

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