PSYC2071 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Explicit Knowledge, Visual Cortex, Parallel Computing
Document Summary
Apprehension of the world by means of our senses. Basic mechanism and process in the construction of the reality in our world. Helps us understand other behaviours that might appear in other psychological ab. It determines what we think is real, what we think exists and what we believe is true. Perception does not need to give us a true representation of the world. In most cases, perception does not equal reality. Ambiguous stimulus- not much is known about the ambient illumination conditi. As a result the captured luminance is consistent with two equally probable inter. Sensation- ability to detect a stimulus and perhaps to turn that detection into a private. Perception- the act of interpreting and giving meaning to a detected sensation. Perceptual experience is hierarchical in nature- you can have perception or interpretati. We typically see the forest (global) before we see the trees (local) Sometimes, local and global properties of an image are not equally accessible.
