PSYCH 2010 Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception
2 Mar 2017
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Know the terms contained in these two video links. Some but not all of the terms were covered in class. Discovering psychology: sensation and perception part 1 youtube. Discovering psychology: sensation and perception full part 2 - youtube. Perception our way of making contact with our environment, of discovering what is happening outside our bodies and brain. The process of selecting, organizing and interpreting sensory data. Psychophysics comparing events with our psychological experience of them. Absolute threshold the weakest level of a stimulus that can be accurately detected at least half the time. Smallest amount of a stimulus we can detect. Difference threshold minimal difference needed to detect a stimulus change. Weber"s law for an average person to perceive a difference, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage. Sensation process of receiving, translating and transmitting raw sensory information from the external and internal environments to the brain. Transduction converts sensory stimuli into neural impulses.
