Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 5 and 6: Twin, Diazepam, Genetic Predisposition

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

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Synesthesia - mixing of the senses (how we sense and understand our world) They may experience sounds as colors or tastes as touch sensations that have different shapes. Whether the stimulus is light, sound waves, a chemical molecule, or pressure, your sensory receptors must translate information into the only language the nervous system understands: nerve impulse this is called transduction. Once this translation occurs, specialized neurons called feature detectors break down and analyze the specific features of the stimuli. Sensation - 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 sense tell us - is the active and creative process of organizing this stimulus input and giving it meaning. Brain"s processing and interpretation of the info. Transduction --> process whereby the characteristics of a stimulus are converted into nerve impulses. Examples: typical 5 senses: vision, audition, touch (pressure, pain, temp.