PSYC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hair Cell, Parallel Computing, Electromagnetic Spectrum

• School: Brock University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1F90
• Professor: John Mitterer

Document Summary

Cannot control your senses wide awake: but you"re paralyzed. Pleasure is not being triggered by desirable events. See and hear things that are not actually there. Rene descartes (1637) cogito, ergo sum ( i think, therefore i am) Emmanuel kant"s disincion between the noumenon( thing-in-itself) and phenomenon (thing as it appears) Every experience you have is an construcion of your brain. 1999: the matrix: diference between reality and your experience of reality. Wilhelm wundt: physics is the science of reality, psychology is the science of reality, psychophysics, absolute and relaive thresholds. When a dog smells something what does it smell. Proximal simulus: patern of energy falling on sense receptor (illusion) Percept (reality): our experience of a simulus (percepion) If there is no one there to experience the sound then there is no sound. Sensaion: a process by which physical energy falling paterns. Percepion: a process in which we perceive something. Louder the sound the bigger the vibraion creates physical stress.