[PSY100Y5] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (23 pages long!)

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

Sensation and perception synesthesia: condition in which perceptual/cognitive activities trigger exceptional experiences e. g. seeing red when you hear train . Psychophysics: basic concepts and issues psychophysics: study of how physical stimuli are translated into psychological experience(gustav fechner) Fechner interested in people"s sensitivity to difference between stimuli. Just noticeable difference(jnd): smallest difference in amount of stimulation that a speci c sense can detect. Weber"s law: size of a just noticeable difference is a constant proportion of the size of the initial stimulus. Sensory adaptation gradual decline in sensitivity due to prolonged stimulation autonomic process keeping people tuned in to changes rather than constants in sensory input behavioural adaptation sculpted by natural selection. Our sense of sight: the visual system people rely heavily on sense of sight=trustworthy. The eye: a living optical instrument: channel light to neural tissue(retina, house the retina light enters cornea crystalline lens form upside-down image of object on retina.