01:830:101 Study Guide - Peripheral Nervous System, Sensory Memory, Long-Term Memory

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

The conversion of physical energy from the encironment into a pttern of neural signals. Sensation occurs in the peripheral nervous system and spinal cord perception: The orgaization and interpretation of the neural signals sent from the sensory organs. Perception occurs in the brain proprioception: kinesthetic (relationship of body parts to each other) and vestibular (orientation in space of the head) Light travels through the retina to impinge on photoreceptors at the back of the eye. Light bleaches a pigment contained within the photoreceptors which leads to a graded potential in the photoreceptor that eventually produces an action potential in the ganglion cell. Transfer-appropriate processing - the success of memory retrieval depends on the match between the way encoding is done and the retrieval task. If the retrieval task is to remember the sensory aspects of the stimulus, then shallow encoding is better; to remeber the meaning of the stimulus, then deep encoding is better.