PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-13: Olfactory Receptor Neuron, Ganglion Cell, Amacrine Cell
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Sensation the ability to detect a stimulus and to turn that detection into a private experience. Perception the act of giving meaning to a detected sensation. This and the sense of reality are the products of evolution. Importance of the type of energy in the environment determined which senses have been developed. Sensory transducer a receptor that converts physical energy from the environment into neural activity. Plato and the allegory of the cave. He said that our conception of reality is critically dependent on the information that is gathered form our senses and that we do not know the rality outside of the perception of our senses. Our understanding of reality is restricted to things that we can perceive. Heraclitus you can nerve step into the same river twice says that the perceiver cannot perceive the same event in exactly the same way because of. Experience, adaption, change and contrast (changes in time and space)