PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Color Constancy, Color Vision, Red

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

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Context effects: richard warren- brain works backward to allow a later stimulus to determine how we perceive and earlier one e. g. heard wheel, but they start talking about oranges, so u think u heard peel. Txt book readings: emotions predispose people to perceive; e. g. sad, hear pain instead of pane; they colour our social perceptions, motives energize our perceptual bias. Visual organization: gestalt- an organized whole; tendency to integrate pieces of info into meaningful wholes. Motion perception: brain says shrinking objects are retreating; enlarging objects are approaching. The ear: transforms vibration into nerve impulses, outer ear channels waves thru the auditory canal to the eardrum, causing it to vibrate. Txt book readings: hot (cold & warm spots) Smell: olfaction (smell) is intimate, we smell something when molecules of a substance reach a cluster of olfactory receptors at the top of each nasal cavity & the receptor alert the brain thru their bres.