PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Long Term Ecological Research Network, Chromate And Dichromate, Electromagnetic Spectrum

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1XX3
• Professor: Joe Kim

Document Summary

Visual spectrum is just part of a continuum. Human beings can only detect light from the visible spectrum: only segment of the electromagnetic spectrum that humans can see. Limits of visual detection bias your view. Heat is something that we feel, but some animals can see heat: can be part of looking for a mate, hunting for prey, we can sort of experience this if we wear infrared goggles. You can also see the heat signatures of where the person was before. Colours around you are just in your head. Think about naive realism, we think that the way we perceive ether world is the way that it really is. Conclusion from colour perception module: colour is a made up phenomenon, colour is only a personal perceptual experience. Converting electromagnetic waves from the environment that affect the cones in our eyes. Trichromatic: three types of colour receptors, see colours we associate with normal visual processing.