PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Semicircular Canals, Absolute Threshold, Stirrup

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

Psy1101 nonvisual senses there is a critical period for normal sensory and perceptual development the critical period is an optimal period when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences is required. Perceptual adaptation is the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field: example: putting on a new pair of glasses and adjusting within minutes. George stratton 1896 invented optical headgear that flipped r to l and up to down, by the 8th day he had adjusted. Audition: the sense or act of hearing, provides information and enables relationships reacting to a new sound happens 10x as fast as a visual stimulus. Wavelength the distance between successive peaks, determines pitch frequency the number of complete wavelengths that can pass a point in a. Amplitude the height from peak to trough, influences sound intensity (great cochlea"s oval window.