PSY100H1 Midterm: PSY TEST 2 Review

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Sensation: involves the detection of external stimuli (e. g. , light, pressure, odours, etc), responses to those stimuli, and the transmission of these responses to the brain. Stimuli need to be translated into chemical or electrical signals for your brain to understand them. Transduction: process by which sensory receptors pass impulses to connecting neurons when they receive stimulation. (e. g. , from pressure on the skin, in the case of touch). Most of this information (not smell) goes first to the thalamus, before being directed to a particular part of the cortex, where the information is then interpreted as sight, smell, taste, etc. Physical energy such as light or a sound wave is converted into a form of energy: electrical stimulation: sensory thresholds: Perception (psychological process): involves the processing, organization, and interpretation of sensory signals in the brain, which results in an internal representation of the stimuli and your conscious experience of it!