PSY280H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 133 pages long!)
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PSY280H1 Full Course Notes
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Office hours in presentation for today & email. Review quiz will be online after every class for 24hrs. For class material only - at most 1hr to complete. Penalty for late assignments is 10 points per day. Midterm covers material ch 1-7, but exam is cumulative. This class is about our interpretation of reality as interpreted by the senses. Starts with energy from environment - sensation is result of interaction bw world and bodies. Sensory transducer: receptor that converts physical energy from envir to neural energy. Specialized cell that turns energy into electrical signals. Importance of energy in envir for animal determines which senses are developed. Humans are limited to certain kinds of energy. Such as the bee who can see ultraviolent light when humans cannot. Survival advantage for bees because flowers are the source of food for bees. Rattlesnakes can see infrared heat bc most of their prey are mammals with warm bodies.
