PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Poggendorff Illusion, Subjective Constancy, Moon Illusion
5 Oct 2016
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Chapter 3: september 28, 2016: perception : experiences resulting from stimulation of the senses. [while ur looking at it: action - we are moving in one place even when we"re sitting. Helps us w/ the other aspects of cognitive psych - memory, acquiring knowledge, solving problems, communicating w/ others. Top-down processing : originates in brain, at the top of the perceptual system: more cognitive, what we know, what we expect, person"s knowledge of envir, expectations to a situation, attention to specific stimuli, perceiving objects. > the multiple personalities of a blob - seen as different objects depending on orientation. > perceive different objects because of our knowledge about objects found in different types of scenes. > find the 13 faces hidden in the picture g) hearing words in a sentence. > one person who knows english & the other who knows spanish both receive identical sounds stimuli but experience different perceptions.
