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PSYCHOLOGY #1

TermDefinition
STIMULI External environmental information that provokes a physiological or psychological activity or response. eg - the wind hitting your skin and then you reacting to that.
SENSATION The process by which our sense organs and receptors detect and respond to sensory information that stimulates them.
RECEPTION The process of detecting and responding to incoming sensory information within the sensory organs.
SENSORY RECEPTORS In sensory organs are specialized receptors that detect & respond to only that type of sensory information..
RECEPTIVE FIELD The area of space where a receptor can respond to a stimulus will affect the activity of receptor cells. eg - when you look directly in front of you, everything you see is the receptive field of your eyes.
PERCEPTION The process where the brain gives meaning (interprets) to sensory information. eg - everything is perception, everything we see.
INTERPRETATION In perception, the process of assigning meaning to incoming sensory information so that it can be understood.
What are the three main functions of the nervous system? 1. Receive information. 2. Process information. 3. Co-ordinate a response to information.
What are the sensory organs? ears, eyes, skin, nose and tongue
TRANSDUCTION The process by which the receptors change the energy of the detected sensory information into a form which can travel along neural pathways to the brain as action potentials.
TRANSMISSION The process of sending the sensory information to relevant areas of the brain via the thalamus.
Created by: ebony.odonohue
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