VCE Psychology Unit 2 New Version 2023.

VCE Psychology Unit 2 New Version 2023. Sensation - ANSWER.Process by which sense organs and receptors detect and respond to sensory information -Same for everyone -Biological Perception - ANSWER.Refers to the process of giving meaning to sensory information, resulting in our personal interpretation of that information -Automatic -Active process -Different for everyone -Biological and psychological Visual perception process - ANSWER.Reception Transduction Transmission Selection Organisation Interpretation (1) Reception - ANSWER.the process of detecting and responding to incoming sensory information (2) Transduction - ANSWER.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 neural impulses (3) Transmission - ANSWER.Electrochemical information leaves the receptor site and travels along specific nerve fibres that connects to a particular location in the brain specialised to receive them (4) Selection (perception) - ANSWER.The world around us is filled with an infinite number of stimuli that we might attend to, but our brains do not have the resources to pay attention to everything. Thus, the first step of perception is the (usually unconscious, but sometimes intentional) decision of what to attend to, depending on the environment, and depending on us as individuals (5) Organisation - ANSWER.-Grouping of elements of stimuli to form a meaningful whole -Hoe features are organised depends on a range of mental processes e.g gestalt principles and depth cue