An investigation of certain personality factors as correlates of perceptual responses

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Frances Elaine Jarman (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Advisor
Kendon Smith

Abstract: The problem of defining and explaining perception has challenged psychologists ever since psychology first became a science. It is understood that the stimulation of a sensory end-organ results in the conduction of electrical impulses from the end-organ through nerve fibers to the cerebral cortex. Normally, different kinds of stimuli activate different sensory end-organs, the impulses from which arrive at different places on the cortex; that is, sound will activate one organ and light will activate another, and the wave-length of light which corresponds to the sensation of red activates organs different from those activated by the wave-length corresponding to blue.

Additional Information

Publication
Honors Project
Language: English
Date: 1959

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