PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dazed, Binding Problem, Subjective Constancy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Perception: the process of attending to, organizing, and interpreting sensory information; enabling us to recognize/judge meaningful objects and events. Unconciously we see colour, motion, form, and depth: conscious experience => i saw a ying bird! . Parallel processing refers to building perception out of the sensory details processed in different areas of the brain at the same time. Bottom-up processes: construct the whole from its parts: starts with activity in the primary visual cortex followed by the association cortex. Top-down processes: starts with our beliefs and expectations, which we impose on raw stimuli captured by our senses: starts with a activity in the association cortex followed by the primary visual cortex, consciousness and attention. In psychology, if often refers to a person"s subjective awareness of internal and external stimuli, including thoughts, perceptions, experiences, and self-awareness. It attends to some parts to the exclusion of others.