PSY 368 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Neuropsychology, Psy, White Matter
1 Feb 2019
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*study tip: focus on the lecture notes first, then on the text covering the lecture topics, then the rest of the assigned chapters. Sensation - the first contact between the organism and the environment. Transduction - the conversion of environmental energy into neural energy. Stimuli from the world sensory process. We evolved our senses to capture specific forms of energy existing in nature. We can only perceive those forms of energy that can be transduced by our sensory systems. The distance between to consecutive peaks of a wave. The first contact between the organism and the environment. Our conscious experience of objects and object relationships . The experience of two different percepts despite an unchanging physical stimulus. Perception is a unique blend of physical and mental realities. Perception is subjective; it is influenced by memory, context, meaning, and experience. Objective properties exist in your brain, not in the object. Relationship between an attended stimulus and a person"s perception.
