PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Sound Localization, Absolute Threshold, Sensation (Band)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ingrid Johnsrude

Document Summary

Perception: is the selection, organization and interpretations of sensations; extracts meaning from what you sense, tying it to know and understand. Gustation (taste), olfaction (smell) are chemical senses. Touch is broken down into the somatosenses, which include the skin senses of touch, temperature and pain, kinaesthetic senses (how you know the position of your limbs, trunk and head in space) Light the adequate stimulus for vision is light light is a form of electromagnetic energy the brightness we see depends on the intensity of the light wave lengths are characterized by wavelength and amplitude. Eye movements eye movements are necessary because of the design of the human eye the resolution of our sight varies by orders of magnitude across the visual field. Sound sound results from the vibration of air molecules composed of three characteristics: frequency (pitch), amplitude (loudness) and complexity (timbre)