PSYC 107 1nd Edition Lecture 15 Outline of Last Lecture I Biological Differences II Sex vs Gender III Nurture of Gender IV For The Test Outline of Current Lecture I Sensation and Perception II Sensory Reality III Sensing the World Current Lecture I Critical Thinking Exercise a Rotating mask illusion eye must take 2 dimensional information and convert to 2 dimensional b Prosopagnosia face blindness data form the occipital lobe is sent to the temporal love and is not interpreted ccorrectly II Psychophysics a The study of the relationship between a physical characteristic and what psychological experience coincides with them b Example i Light is physical but the psychological word attached is brightness sound to volume pressure to weight sugar to sweet III Thresholds a Absolute the minimum amount of stimulus needed to detect a stimulus 50 of the time b Subliminal when stimuli are below one s threshold for conscious awareness c Vision a candle 30 miles away d Hearing a ticking watch at 20 feet when quiet e Smell a drop of perfume diffused across 3 rooms These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute f Taste a teaspoon of sugar in 2 gallons of water g Touch the wing of an insect falling on your neck from 1 centimeter h When differences are just noticeable two stimuli must differ by a minimum percentage rather than an amount IV Vision a Pulses of electromagnetic energy sensation b Color Perception c Light measured in wavelengths d Physical Properties of Light i Hue color the dimension of color determine by the wavelength of light ii Wavelength the distance from one peak to another peak iii Intensity amount of energy in a wave determined by the amplitude iv Related to perceived brightness
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