PSYC 1020H Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Subliminal Stimuli, Color Vision, Inattentional Blindness

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1020H
• Professor: Bond Barbara

Document Summary

Synaesthesia condition in which perceptual or cognitive activities (listening to music, reading) trigger exceptional experiences (colour, taste) Seeing the colour (cid:498)red(cid:499) when you hear the word (cid:498)train(cid:499) Perception selection, organization, and interpretation of sensory input. Psychophysics study of how physical stimuli are translated into psychological experience. Mental psychologists interested mainly in sensation and perception. Threshold dividing point between energy levels that do and do not have a detectable effect. Gadget that automatically turns a lamp on when room gets dark. Level of light intensity at which the gadget clicks on is its threshold. Absolute threshold minimum amount of stimulation that an organism can detect for a specific type of sensory input. Vision a candle flame seen at 50km on a dark clear night. Jnd (just noticeable difference) smallest difference in the amount of stimulation that a specific sense can detect.