PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Optic Nerve, Anne Sullivan, Retina
12 Nov 2015
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October 28, 2015 (*all of the following notes are supplementary to the rudimentary notes from d2l brightspace provided by the professor. Some notes reflect an area of the notes that required us to fill in the blanks. I"ve tried to mark them appropriately, but be sure to compare these to your d2l notes and the textbooks. Overview: brian borowski (1957 to p. , blind, learned to navigate using a form of echolocation. The big picture: what"s happening in our mind vs in our body, complex, sophisticated, and automatic. Principles of stimulus detection: psychophysics, apply quantitative descriptors going from physical to psychological, the absolute threshold is the lowest intensity which people can detect a stimulus 50% of the time. Inattentional blindness: failure to detect stimuli that are in plain sight when our attention is focused elsewhere. The auditory system: human audible range: 20-20 000 hz.
