PSYC 2390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Occipital Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Frontal Lobe
12 Sep 2016
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Perception: conscious experience that results from stimulation of our senses. Detectors of the body: eyes, ears, skin receptors, receptors in nose and mouth. Everything you see, hear, taste, feel, and smell is the result of the activity in your nervous system and your knowledge gained from experiences. Perception depends on the properties of the sensory receptors. The perceptual process: stimulus in the environment (ex. Seeing a tree) *distal stimulus: light refracted and focused *proximal stimulus, receptor processes, neural processing, perception (ex. *the last three may not occur in this order, may occur at the same time or in the reverse order! Sensation: detecting elementary properties of a stimulus (ex. Perception: complex process that involves higher-order brain functions like interpreting events and objects. Distal and proximal stimuli (steps 1 and 2) Distal stimulus: out there in the environment, distant . Principle of transformation: stimuli and responses created by stimuli are changed (transformed) between the distal stimulus and perception (ex.
