PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Taste, Mecha, Eth
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Psyao1 chapter 5: sensation succintly - clearly expressed. Used by orgsms to learn, experience about world around them. Eth learned about world detected by sensory organs and sent to brain via sensory nerves. W/out them, nth can be learned, orgsm have no thoughts/experiences. \ detecting the basic prop"s of stimulus. Brightness, colour, warmth, sweetness, observing mvmt (ex. colour red) (ex. colour red & green = sensation) (ex. locomotion = sensation: perception. \ detecting more sophisticated prop"s of stimulus. Detecting the obj"s (whether biotic/abiotic), what is their loc, locomotion, bkground (ex. apple) (ex. watermelon = perception) (ex. seeing a baseball come towards us and knowing we have to catch it = perception) Needed for developing most fundamental features for sensory sys. > ken hill"s story about lost boy in canada"s open spaces. Sound detection not same as identifiying meaning of source of sound. Gustation (taste), olfactory (smell), auditory (hear), somatosensory (feel & touch) , visual (see)
