PSYC 1000 Lecture : Sensation and Perception
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Sensation and perception sensation:activation of the sense organs by a source energy. Perception:sorting out, interpretation, analysis, and integration of stimuli of physical. Stimulus:energy that produces a response in a sense organ. Noise:background stimulation that interferes of stimulus that must be present for it to be detected the perception of other stimuli. The cestalt laws of organization series of principles that describe how we organize bits and pieces of. Closure it kn"t contextual? f information into meaningful wholes. Bottom - up processing: progression of recognizing and processing information from individual components of a stimuli and moving to the perception of the whole. Even if the image on our retina changes. Depth perception: to view the world in 3d and to size, shape, color and brightness. Monocular cres:permites to obtain a sense of depth and distance w/ just one eye. Physical objects are unvarying and consistent even though sensory inpotbabo- them may vary.
