PSY 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Detection Theory, Subliminal Stimuli, Feature Extraction

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

The body"s sensory receptors are sensitive to a very limited range of the earth"s energy. The sensory energy is transformed into an electrical signal that then travels down the specialized nerve. Ear is sensitive to energy in the form of air pressure. What we experience in the different modalities and within the same modality is quite different. Sensation is objective presumably all animals that share one or more of our specific receptors. (more or less). Sensation is probably similar in all humans and. Progression from the individual elements to the whole. Integration of sensory information with permanently stored memories to form. Perception is very subjective different from yours. (the mind"s i). Nevertheless, all humans and many ancestors perceive the world in a similar way. How our brains make use of information that has already been brought into the brain by one or more of the sensory systems.