PSYC1002 Chapter Notes - Chapter Review: Spectral Power Distribution, Basilar Membrane, Semicircular Canals
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Sensation refers to how your senses transform physical properties of the environment into electrical signals relayed to the brain. Perception refers to the process of interpreting these signals into meaningful experiences. There are six senses vision, hearing, tactile, taste, olfactory, vestibular (inner ear senses gravity) Figure 1 illusio(cid:374)s i(cid:374)di(cid:272)ate that (cid:449)e do(cid:374)(cid:859)t know how things are structured in the world around us. They provide insight into how perceptual systems break down and reveal the kinds of assumptions or general rules we are using to make guesses about the physical world. Figure 4 - simplicity (sphere rather than many triangles) Figure 5 - good continuation (background figure is a (cid:449)hole (cid:272)u(cid:271)e(cid:895). Figure 7 familiarity, or closure (we supply missing elements to close familiar figure dog) Figure 8 - context affects the way an image is perceived. Distal stimuli are stimuli that lie in the distance i. e. in the world outside the body.
