Psychology 1000 Chapter 5: Chapter 5- Sensation and Perception October 23rd.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Women are more likely to be synaesthetes than men. Individuals may experience sound as colours or tastes as touch sensations that have different shapes. Transduction is when your sensory receptors translate the information into the only language your nervous system understands. Feature detectors break down and analyze the specific features of the stimuli. Sensation is the stimulus detection process by which our sense organs respond to and translate environmental stimuli into nerve impulses that are sent to the brain. Perception making sense of what our senses tell us is the active process of organizing this stimulus input and giving it meaning. Five classical senses include: vision, audition (hearing, touch, gustation (tasting, olfaction (smell) There are senses that provide information about and balance and body position. The sense of touch can be subdivided into separate senses of pressure, pain and temperature. Human sensory systems are designed to extract from the environment the information that we need to function and survive.