Sensations and perception

Question 1

what is perception?

Answer 1

everything you see, feel, hear, smell and touch

Question 2

what is perception a product of?

Answer 2

the biological machinery inside your brain

Question 3

what are the four things we can sense?

Answer 3

• light
• chemicals
• temperature
• mechanical forces

Question 4

what is the process of perception?

Answer 4

physical world/distal stimuli -> input from physical world -> mental world/proximal stimuli

Question 5

what does empiricism state?

Answer 5

knowledge comes from outside the mind

the environment shapes the brain and our experience of the world

nurture argument

Question 6

what does rationalism state?

Answer 6

certain fundamental processes drive shape/knowledge

our brains architecture shapes and constrains everyone

nature argument

Question 7

what are the 3 stages of perception?

Answer 7

1) sample information
2) encode and register it
3) interpret and use it

Question 8

what is light?

Answer 8

light is an electromagnetic radiation from 360nm - 760nm

it is also energy reflected and absorbed by surfaces

Question 9

how does light being impacting surfaces affect perception?

Answer 9

light is reflected and absorbed by surfaces

this changes the properties of light

light waves now contain information about surfaces

the brain ectracts information frm light