PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Psych, Fusiform Gyrus, Visual Perception

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 001
• Professor: del rio

Document Summary

Sensation the raw sensory data the brain receives from the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, balance, touch, and pain. Perception the process of organizing, interpreting, and giving meaning to that raw data. Stimuli must be coded to be understood by the brain when they receive physical or chemical stimulation. Transduction a process by which sensory receptors produce neural impulses. Psychophysics a subfield that examines our psychological experiences of. Absolute threshold the minimum intensity of stimulation that must physical stimuli occur before you experience a sensation. Level of intensity at which participants (correctly) detect a stimulus on 50 percent of the trials in which it is presented. Signal detection theory detecting a stimulus requires making a judgment about its presence or absence, based on a subjective interpretation of ambiguous information. Phantom limb the intense sensation than an amputated body part still exists. A condition in which people who are blind have some visual capacities in the.