Psychology 1000 Quiz: PSYCHOLOGY 1

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Corey Isaacs

Document Summary

If sense organs are not defective we experience light waves as brightness and colors, air vibrations as sound. We perceive the world around us as psychophysics and psychophysiology. Synesthesia: (cid:862)(cid:373)i(cid:454)i(cid:374)g of se(cid:374)ses(cid:863) their se(cid:374)se orga(cid:374)s are defe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s differe(cid:374)t that example above (sound as colour or taste as touch, woman more likely than men) In synesthesia there is some sort of cross wiring so activity in one part of brain evokes response from another. Binding problem: how do all perceptions bind into one complete whole while keeping sensory elements separate. Sensations: the stimulus detection process by which our sense organs respond to the translate environmental stimuli into nerve impulses that are sent to the brain. Perception: make sense of what our senses tell us (active process of organizing the stimulus giving meaning) Sensory equipment of any species is an adaptation to the environment in which it lives in (animals have different adaptations then humans, night vision, hearing, etc. )