PSY 3108 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cochlear Nucleus, Noise Control, Round Window

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3108
• Professor: Levente Orban

Document Summary

What is perception: vision, audition, olfaction, gestation, nociception, proprioception, remote viewing, psychokinesis, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance. Is our perception perfect: we did not drop into the pleistocene period with all of our cognitive and perceptual abilities fully formed. 100 to 50 if the bottom is 10 to 5. Logical and mathematical give you truth: but in truth you have no meaning, this is why two systems work together, deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning, weber and fechner, first people who thought about quantitatively studying perceptive reasoning. 7/10 bees landed on a blue flower chi squared test you have taken empiricism route since you"ve observed and described with chi squared. Signal detection theory: you hear a crack in the woods what do you do, reality check: if it was a turkey you look you win, you run you lose. 2 things involved in response: sensitivity to signal (d") Ability to identify two distributions of signals that are closely tied together.