PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Inattentional Blindness, Subliminal Stimuli, Gestalt Psychology
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Chapter 4. 1 sensation and perception at a glance. The process of detecting and then translating the complexity of the world into meaningful experiences occurs in two stages: The process of detecting external events by sense organs and turning those stimuli into neural signals. Sight is a combination of color and motion. Perception: involves attending to, organizing, and interpreting stimuli that we sense. E. g. recognizing sounds as a human voice and understanding that certain colors, shapes, and motion together make up the image of a human being walking toward you. When specialized receptors transform the physical energy of the outside world into neural impulses. Johannes muller introduced the doctrine of specific nerve energies. Different senses are separated in the brain. E. g. we are able to see due to occipital lobes and able to hear due to temporal lobes. Perception is a skill that our brains learn through experience e. g. babies don"t a specific subdivided functions for hearing and speaking***
