5: Psychical processes
How does one integrate into the society and get to know the surrounding world?
through the sense organs and central nervous system
psychical processes
Which branch of psychology studies the psychical processes?
cognitive psychology: concerned with all forms of cognition
attention, perception, learning, memory, thinking, problem solving, language
What psychical processes do we distinguish? SPITMA
sensation
perception
imagination
thinking
memory
attention
How do we divide the psychical processes?
cognitive
emotional
volitional
Elaborate on the psychical cognitive processes and states: How do we further divide them?
form the fundamental mechanism through which we gte to know the surrounding world
they determine our behaviour
sensation, perception, imagination and fantasy, thinking, memory, attention
Elaborate on sensation: What types do we distinguish?
a subjective experience or feeling that results from stimulation of a sense organ
5: Psychical processes 1
, it is the capacity to experience through sense and the result of that being sensation
1. external: receptors on the surface of a body, vision, hearing, smell, taste…heat, cold,
pain, pressure
2. internal: sensors respond to mechanical stimulation in the vestibular system and supply
information about balance, orientation, movement, receptors in the inner ear and
muscles and organs
Charactericise the external sources:
vision: stimulated by light and mediated by photoreceptors in the retinas, three
indepenent systems that analyse information about shape/colour/movement
hearing: responsive to sound waves
smell: mediated by olfactory receptors, reawakening memories
taste: stimulated by substances, taste buds
ytouch: generic term for several senses that respond to stimuli directly in contact with
the skin
Elaborate on perception: What types do we distinguish? What happend during perceiving?
cannot exist without sensation
process of perceiving sensory experience that has been interpreted with reference to its
presumed external stimulus object or event
1. perception of shape
2. perception of space and distance
3. perception of time
adapting of the sense organs outside stimuli plays the vital role: adjustment of vision,
stimuli like exhaustion or drugs
Define a percept:
mental representation of something that is percieved by the senses
we do not percieve individual characteristics but the thing as a whole
What types of time do we distinguish within psychology?
objective: independent from a subject
5: Psychical processes 2
How does one integrate into the society and get to know the surrounding world?
through the sense organs and central nervous system
psychical processes
Which branch of psychology studies the psychical processes?
cognitive psychology: concerned with all forms of cognition
attention, perception, learning, memory, thinking, problem solving, language
What psychical processes do we distinguish? SPITMA
sensation
perception
imagination
thinking
memory
attention
How do we divide the psychical processes?
cognitive
emotional
volitional
Elaborate on the psychical cognitive processes and states: How do we further divide them?
form the fundamental mechanism through which we gte to know the surrounding world
they determine our behaviour
sensation, perception, imagination and fantasy, thinking, memory, attention
Elaborate on sensation: What types do we distinguish?
a subjective experience or feeling that results from stimulation of a sense organ
5: Psychical processes 1
, it is the capacity to experience through sense and the result of that being sensation
1. external: receptors on the surface of a body, vision, hearing, smell, taste…heat, cold,
pain, pressure
2. internal: sensors respond to mechanical stimulation in the vestibular system and supply
information about balance, orientation, movement, receptors in the inner ear and
muscles and organs
Charactericise the external sources:
vision: stimulated by light and mediated by photoreceptors in the retinas, three
indepenent systems that analyse information about shape/colour/movement
hearing: responsive to sound waves
smell: mediated by olfactory receptors, reawakening memories
taste: stimulated by substances, taste buds
ytouch: generic term for several senses that respond to stimuli directly in contact with
the skin
Elaborate on perception: What types do we distinguish? What happend during perceiving?
cannot exist without sensation
process of perceiving sensory experience that has been interpreted with reference to its
presumed external stimulus object or event
1. perception of shape
2. perception of space and distance
3. perception of time
adapting of the sense organs outside stimuli plays the vital role: adjustment of vision,
stimuli like exhaustion or drugs
Define a percept:
mental representation of something that is percieved by the senses
we do not percieve individual characteristics but the thing as a whole
What types of time do we distinguish within psychology?
objective: independent from a subject
5: Psychical processes 2
