PSYB51H3 Midterm: [PSYB51] Midterm exam notes (Ch.1-4)
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Only own sensory experience is directly accessible to ourselves. Sensation: ability to turn detection into private experience. E. g. detection of pressure of finger as experience. Perception: act of giving meaning to those detected sensation. Etienne bonnot de condillac: asked readers to imagine the mental life of statue with no senses. Concluded the statue would have no mental life. Method used in study of senses: threshold, scaling: -qualia: private conscious experience of sensation or perception in philosophy. No direct way to experiences other"s experiences, can only know by differences: signal detection theory, sensory neuroscience: explain how your perception of world depends on activity of sensory nerves, neuroimaging: Binocular rivalry: would not see two images together when each presented to each eye. Two images would vie to dominate one eye"s perception. Study of senses if mix of experimental science and philosophy. Scientist-philosopher, consider as founder of experimental psychology (wilhelm wundlt) Dualism: idea of mind has existence separate from material world of body.
