[PSYC 181] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (69 pages long)
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Sensation: the process of sensing our environment through touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell. Sensory coding converting it into electrical signals, sending the signals to the brain, and then interpreting the signals. : the entire process of taking in physical energy from the world, Sensory receptors: a specialized nerve ending that recognizes a stimulus in the internal or external environment of an organism. Reception stimulation of sensory receptor cells by energy (sound, light, heat, etc. ) Transduction: the process of converting energy from the environment into neural impulses. Each sense involves a set of specialized brain regions: help interpret what you"re seeing/smelling/tasting. Transmission delivering this neural info to brain to be processed. Psychophysics: the branch of psychology that examines the relationships between the properties of physical stimuli and our psychological response. Absolute threshold: the smallest or weakest amount of sensation we can detect: measured at the point when a person is able to detect a sensation 50% of the time.
