PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Wok, Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales, Typewriter
16 Nov 2016
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Perception is based on the association of sensory atoms in memory via repeated, prior joint occurrences. Wundt studied conscious experience by examining its structure or components parts. [sensations, feelings] using individuals who were trained in introspection. This school of psychology" became known as structuralism. Structuralism cannot explain apparent motion" [phi effect] Dorsal stream: allows you to know where something is, into to parietal lobe. Ventral stream: allows you to know what something is, into temporal lobe. Extracting patterns from random things [ex. / trump bread, faces in rocks] Perception results from the interaction between the intrinsic structure of the stimulus and the intrinsic structure of the brain. Perception is not built up from sensations but is a result of perceptual organization. The whole is greater or different than the sum of its parts [emergent property] We tend to separate the important aspects of the figure from the surroundings. We focus or give our attention to the figure.
