PSYC100 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Motor Learning, Decision-Making, Computer Keyboard

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Agnes R.Ly

Document Summary

Nature vs. nurture & how we come to experience our worlds. It"s not as simple as nature being separate from nurture. Nature prepares us bt need nurture to help make us work. Exercise turned on the gene to make more and better synaptic connections. Without context your brain is left to make assumptions. ^ mechanical process (given that we have eyes that function, there are these light waves that come and hit my eyes, the eye receives it) Sensation would be looking at the image, and having our eyes register the image. Transduction- neurons send electrical signals (action potentials) lightways to what brain understands. Detect low levels of light darkness and motion. Ganglion cells- first neurons in the visual pathway. Neurons send electrical signals (action potentials) lightways to what brain understands. Left visual field goes to right visual cortex. Right visual field goes to the left visual cortex. Occipital lobe streams it to the ventral and dorsal lobe.