PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Temporal Lobe, Train Horn, Neural Adaptation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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The only receptors that detect, transduce and transmit information throughout the body. Very basic individual stimuli are combined through complex manipulation to create the entire stimulus. Scientific study of the interaction between the physical world and our psychological experiences. The minimum amount of physical stimulus necessary in order for it to be detectable 50% of the time. We also need to be able to detect changes in present stimuli. The minimum amount of change in a stimulus in order for it to be detected 50% of the time. States that the ratio of the increment threshold to the background intensity is a constant. So when you are in a noisy environment you must shout to be heard while a whisper works in a quiet room. And when you measure increment thresholds on various intensity backgrounds, the thresholds increase in proportion to the background. Our ability to detect physical stimuli does not merely depend on the strength of the.