PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Proverb, Retina, Mcgurk Effect

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Sensation= sensory input and transduction, extracting basic features. Perception= integrating of sensory information to form a percept using memory. Our sense of vision dominates other senses. When there is simultaneous stimulation of our receptors, vision captures our attention. Gestalt psychology= given a cluster of sensations, the perceiver organizes them into a whole. Grouping: to bring order to our sensations, we logically group the individual stimuli to form a whole. In order to perceive, we need to perceive a figure as being distinct from its surroundings (the ground) Rules of proximity, similarity, continuity, closure (in textbook) Infants will not crawl out beyond a cliff . Newborns of all species refused to do so. Therefore the ability to see depth is at least partially innate (learning vs inheritance) What are the cues for depth: binocular cues. Two eye do not see the same thing. Retinal disparity the image that falls on each eye is not identical (subtly different)