PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Proprioception, Classical Conditioning, Depth Perception

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ryan Curtis

Document Summary

Psyc 100 - lecture 07 - sensation and perception. Happens in eyeballs/fingers/nose - but the brain must process that info. For the first few days, every image is seen upside down. After that, the brain adjusts the images to be seen right side up. Your eyes rotate the images 180 degrees. Microsaccades - eyes always twitching (extraocular muscles) Perceptual illusion (how your brain interprets an image) vs optical illusion (how your eyes interpret an image) Your brain does not perceive blind spots - but it fills in the missing info with what it thinks should be there (based off context) This is an example of a perceptual illusion. Monocular because only one eye is necessary to do it (utilizes ciliary muscles - both eyes have ciliary muscles) Using the knowledge of the sizes of common objects to determine depth. A person"s height relative to the horizon line. Uses monocular cues to distort your pov.