GEOG 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Jackpot, Association Football, Sensory Threshold
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The process by which an individual selects, organizes, and interprets stimuli into a meaningful and coherent picture of the world. How we see the world around us. Information processing boxes in the head framework. Short-term memory: goal: elaboration/processing, long-term memory, goal: remembering (recall, goal: attention. The immediate and direct response of the sensory organs to stimuli (units of input to the senses, as captured by the sensory receptors). Sensory receptors: eyes, ears, nose, mouth, skin (sight, sounds, smell, taste, touch). Absolute threshold: lowest level at which an individual can experience a sensation. Differential threshold or j. n. d: the minimal difference that can be detected between two similar stimuli o. The stronger the initial stimulus, the greater the additional intensity needed for the second stimulus to be perceived as different. Absolute threshold: the point at which a person can detect a difference between something and nothing is that person"s absolute threshold for that stimulus.
