PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Destruction Force, Insular Cortex, Optical Illusion
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Synesthesia: condition in which perceptual or cognitive activities trigger exceptional experiences: emotional synesthesia: speci c stimuli are consistently and involuntarily associated with emotional responses, taste-touch synesthesia: tastes lead to speci c feelings. Grapheme-colour synesthesia: words, letters, or digits are associated with speci c colours. Sensation: stimulation of sense organs: absorption of energy (light or sound waves) Perception: selection, organization, and interpretation of sensory input: organizing and translating sensory input into something meaningful. Psychophysics: study of how physical stimuli are translated into psychological experience. Threshold: dividing point between energy levels that do and do not have a detectable effect: hardware store selling gradients when it automatically turns on when the room gets dark. Absolute threshold: speci c type of sensory input that is the minimum amount of stimulation that an organism can detect: de nes the boundaries of an organism"s sensory capabilities, anything but absolute, stimulus intensity detected 50 percent of the time.