PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Absolute Threshold, Response Bias, Adobe After Effects

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Waggoner Denton Ashley

Document Summary

Important things to keep in mind: everything is experienced in your brain, the world you live in is constructed by you, context is important, change is important. Sensation: going from the world, to your brain: stimuli need to be translated into chemical or electrical signals for your brain to understand them. The stimuli for taste are chemical substances from food that dissolve in saliva: every taste experience i composed of a mix of ve basic, smell and texture are also important -> remember, the taste. Taste receptors, found in taste buds, send signals to the brain, which then produces the experience of taste qualities: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, & umami (savoury) experience occurs in your brain, where all of these signals are integrated. The stimuli for smell are chemical substances from outside the body that dissolve in uid on mucous membranes in the nose. Vision: i spy, with my little brain: accommodation: muscles change the shape of the lens,