PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Neural Adaptation, Detection Theory, Absolute Threshold

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

Document Summary

Module 17: basic principles of sensation and perception. Your brain then perceives what it is you just. In our everyday experiences, sensation and perception blend into one continuous process saw) Our sensory and perceptual processes work together to help us decipher the world around us. Sensory receptors (eyes, ears, nose, etc. ) transduction leads to neural impulses perception (visual, auditory, olfactory areas) Our bottom-up processing starts at the sensory receptors and works up to higher levels of processing: in other words - assembling and integrating sensory information. Our top-down processing constructs perceptions from the sensory input by drawing on our experience and expectations: in other words using past experience/ideas to interpret sensory information. The process of converting one form of energy into another that our brain can use. Three functions: receive sensory stimulation, often using specialized receptor cells, transform that stimulation into neural impulses, deliver the neural information to our brain".