Psychology 2210A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, Superior Colliculus, Fixed Action Pattern

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2210A/B
• Professor: Krista Macpherson

Document Summary

Each of our senses has their own specialized system. Blindsight: vision without awareness (superior colliculus). The sc tells you where the stimulus is but doesn"t analyze what the stimulus is: controls oriental responses. Structuralism perception occurs when individual elements are combined into a whole. Gestalt psychology world perceived as a whole. " we process the entire faces, if we process the individual features then things look weird: demonstrated by the 2 obama pictures. Optic flow pattern of apparent motion of objects in visual scene caused by the relative motion between an observer and a scene. At each level of sensory processing information is filtered out. Sign stimuli: features of a stimulus that can elicit a specific behavioural response, baby bird begging by pecking at mother"s pill wanted to know if it"s the red dot on the beak that signs pecking. Found that the red dot is a sign stimulus because it"s special and elicits a certain behavioural response.