PSYC 2000 Chapter : Psyc Notes Ch 3
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Sense organs detect energy and convert it into neutral signals (transduction) Selection, organization and interpretation of sensations (uses information already in memory) Our conscious experience of our environment around us. Key processes include: sensory memory, pattern recognition, and attention. Result from stimuli in the sensory eld used to gather information about a target stimuli. Captcha is a pattern that a human can recognize that a computer cannot. Shape constancy: the tendency to interpret the shape of an object as being constant even when the space changes on the retina. Brightness constancy: the tendency to perceive the brightness of an object as the same even when light conditions change. Size constancy: the tendency to interpret an object as always being its the same actual regardless of its distance. Figure-ground (reversible gures): tendency to perceive objects or gures consisting on a background. Proximity: the tendency to perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping.
