PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Julie Andrews, Unconscious Mind, James Vicary

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Lays the foundation of consciousness and experiences (ex. Step 2 : sensory receptors contact reality. Step 3 : transduction - physical energy of stimulus is converted to electrical energy, which is sent in pulses to the brain. When information is processed through the eye, we do not not experience the world, but a biological representation of that information. Step 4: thalamus - sends information to the sensory processing areas - doctrine of specific nerve energies . Takes care of all senses with the exception of smell. Decoding of raw information, capable of discrete sensory modalities. Step 5 : primary sensory cortex - initial processing of information occurs. Get the basic overview of the situation first. Being knocked out of consciousness, starting to wake up so people and background blend together (would recognize a shape before identifying a person) Step 6 : further processing in many other brain areas, linked to higher level cognitive and perceptual tasks.