PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gestalt Psychology, Temporal Lobe, Two-Streams Hypothesis

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Michael Souza

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For close up, it is gonna be get as big as it can get. Know how big the things are, is useful for judging depth. Expectation about size can get us to think about depth. Something that moves more quickly, is closer to the person. Probably the same object if the things are similar. The more detail you can see, the closer up something tends to be. We are always looking for extra information, but sometimes these extra information tricks us. We take in all perceptual information to make decisions. Because you know something about the world, if shapes your perception. Vision can help us process sound (mcgurk effects) In hearing, we trust our eyes more than our ears. Our brain trust our eyes more than our ears. Runs from the occipital love to the temporal lobe. To know what a thing looks like, we need to remember how things look like (memory)