PSYCH101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Proprioception, Reaction Formation, Source Amnesia

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Amanda Clark

Document Summary

Sensation sensory receptors/nervous system receive stimulus energies from environment. Perception organizing and interpreting sensory info (enables us to recognize objects/events) Bottom-up processing sensory analysis that begins with sensory receptors and works up to the brain. Top-down processing information processing, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experiences and expectations. Signal detection theory predicts how and when we will detect weak signals. Measured as a ratio of hits to false alarms . A person"s reactions vary as circumstances change (no single absolute threshold) Subliminal below absolute threshold for conscious awareness. Priming activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one"s perception, memory, or response ex. When quickly flashed positive pictures (kittens), the picture of people after looked nicer; but when quickly flashed negative pictures (dead body), the people after didn"t look as nice. Sometimes we feel what we do not know and cannot describe.