PSY100Y5 Chapter 4: Chapter 4 book notes

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

Chapter 4: sensation and perception: psychophysics: basic concepts and issues, introduction. Chanaps: virtual agnosia inability to recognize objects through sight, sensation the stimulation of sensory organs. a. Chapter 4: sensation and perception: signal detection theory. Iris colored ring surrounding pupil (black center of the eye) 6: pupil the opening in the center of the iris that helps regulate the amount of light passing into the rear chamber of the eye, the retina: the brain"s envoy in the eye. Chanaps: retina- the neural tissue lining the inside back surface of the eye. May be due to result somewhere along the visual pathway: prosopagnosia inability to recognize familiar faces, viewing the world in color, the stimulus for color, wavelengths hold greatest influence. Most of these people are dichromats: opponent process theory of color vision, complementary colors - pairs of colors that produce gray tones when mixed together, afterimage visual image that persists after a stimulus is removed.