PSYC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Occipital Lobe, Two-Streams Hypothesis, Temporal Lobe

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Peter Graf

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Sensation is simple stimulation of a sense organ. It is the basic registration of the physical world. After sensation, your brain perceives the information by organizing, identifying, and interpreting a sensation in order to form a mental representation. Sensation and perception are related, but they are still separate events. Transduction occurs when sensors in the body convert physical signals from the environment into encoded neural signals sent to the central nervous system. However, if you picked up a 2 kg package and a 2. 02 kg package, (cid:455)ou (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:374)oti(cid:272)e the 0. 02 kg diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e. If the light is presented and the observer correctly responds yes, the outcome is a hit. If the light is presented and the observer says no, the result is a miss. However, if the light is not presented and the observer nonetheless says it was, a false alarm has occurred. Finally, if the light is not presented and the observer responds no, a correct rejection has occurred.