Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Classical Conditioning, Short-Term Memory, Shelf Life

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Experience sounds as colours or taste as touch. Provide different aspects of how we experience the world and understand it. Pruning of neural connections that occur in infancy has not occurred in people with synesthesia. Defect in neural inhibitory processes in the brain that ordinarily keep input from one sensory modality from overflowing into other areas and stimulating them. Stimulus detection process by which our sense organs respond to and translate environmental stimuli into nerve impulses that are sent to the brain. Making sense of what our senses tell us is the active process of organizing this stimulus input and giving it meaning. Process whereby the characteristics of a stimulus are converted into nerve impluses. Studies relations between the physical characteristics of stimuli and sensory capabilities. Lowest intensity at which a stimulus can be detected correctly 50% of the time. Lower the absolute threshold the greater the sensitivity. Size of difference threshold relative to physical intensity of test is constant.