PSYB65H3 Final: PSYB65 FINAL TEXTBOOK NOTES (CHAPTERS 9-11, 12 [PG 401-406], 14-16) + HINTS
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*information related to questions that were on the summer 2015. We are consciously aware of only part of the visual information that our brain is processing. We are also unaware of much sensory processing that takes place in the pathways for hearing, touch, taste, and smell. Sense can deceive us two people can look at the same optical illusion and see very different. Our brains actively transform sensory information into forms that help us to adapt and are thus behaviourally useful. Our sensory systems are extremely diverse images activity. Sensory receptors - specialized cells that transduce (convert) sensory energy into neural. Sensory receptors are designed to respond only to a narrow band of energy. Sensory receptors filter different forms of energy: Vision light energy is converted into chemical energy. Auditory air pressure waves are covered first into mechanical. Soma sensory mechanical energy activates receptor cells that generate action potentials. Taste and olfaction chemical molecules activate action potentials.
