PSY 100 Quiz: Lab 4 - Sensations and Perceptions

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 100
• Professor: Andrea Friedrich

Document Summary

Sensation is the process of receiving information from the outside world: activation of receptors by stimuli, 5 senses: touch, taste smell, hearing, and vision. Perception is how we organize and interpret sensations to make sense of everything around us. Sight: cones: make sense of color we see, rods: do well in low light; make sense of shapes. Sense receptors (rods and cones) would fatigue, causing the image to. Perception goes beyond simply sensing the world. Sensation involves receptors being activated by appropriate forms of energy which is then transformed into neural impulses. Perception involves organizing and interpreting the impulses at higher levels of the brain: results in a meaningful perceptual experience. What we see is how our brains interpret the world around us. Our brains our covered by certain heuristics: simple, efficient rules to help us make quick decisions. Continuation: colors can change the continuation of a shape; our brains block things to be continuous.