PSYB51H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cranial Nerves, Positron Emission Tomography, Action Potential
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Ability to detect pressure of a finger and than maybe turn that detection into a private experience is sensation. Perception is the act of giving meaning to thse sensations (how do you understand the finger running down your back) Variety of methods used in the study of senses. >thresholds, scaling (measuring private experience), signal detection theory, Thresholds: fechner, relationship between mind and matter (dualism and materialism). Dualists say the mind has existence separate from material world of body and materialists say the mind is not separate (mind is what the brain does) >fechner proposed that the mind/consciousness is present in all of nature. Panpsychism: mind exists as a property of all matter. >fechners goal was to show relation b/w mind (sensation) and matter (energy) using math. >he was inspired by weber who was interested in touch, tested the accuracy of our sense of touch.
