PSY 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Working Memory, Actual Size, Social Influence

• School: Temple University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1001
• Professor: Kareem J.Johnson

Document Summary

Perception is the understanding of sensory information as meaningful categories. Sensation is the process of detecting stimuli. The 5 senses (vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch) & the sixth senses (balance; body orientation, kinesthesia; body motion, proprioception; limb position & introception; internal organs) The process of turning environmental stimuli into signals the brain can interpret. There are specialized receptors to detect different stimuli. Shapes and colors combined into my friend"s face. Sound frequencies combined into that song i like. Salty, sweet & bitter combined into chocolate. Patterns are seen so the resulting structure is as simple as possible. Lines tend to be seen as following the smoothest path. Object recognition occurs by making distinctions between the object and the background. The same object can be perceived as entirely different things depending on context. Object shape appears to remain the same even though the visual image changes. Top down info: expectations about the object"s shape.