PSY 1101 Lecture : 7th lecture.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Sensation: extraction of the information from the environment. Information processing: association areas, take information from the primary areas(visual cortex) and take this information, and put it together to give us the experiences that we have from day to day. Perception: take the little bits, and confine them to object that has meaning. Vision: light: is one type of electromagnetc radiation, electromagnetic radiation: different kinds . If you have atoms in it give off er. Things that are warmer give off more. (the sun is the biggest source er: packets of energy given off by all things, particularly things that are high in energy (e. g. , the sun, different kinds of electromagnetic radiation. For example, x-rays, ultraviolet radiation, infrared radiation, microwaves, radio waves, light. Degree of oscillation determines how much energy and the wavelength: the more the oscillation, the shorter the wavelength, the wavelength determines whether or not our eyes can detect it.