PSYC 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Inattentional Blindness, Gestalt Psychology, Motion Blur
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End of chapter 4 notes/ chapter 6 notes (part 1) Life satisfaction generally remains high in late adulthood. The k bler- ross stages of dying (studies on cancer patient: 5 stages of giraffe death (from robot chicken) Denial: no, what are you talking about. Bargaining: religious beliefs, or sometimes bargaining with doctor. May not experience all of these stages. May be more continuous, rather than discrete stages: however, it offers hope. The death bed-quiz: imagine you have loved a rich, meaningful life, and now are on your death bed. The greatest risk in life is not taking one. Looking at a stop sign you see red parts, the hexagon, and the white letters, but do not quite understand what it is. Perception: interpretation, recognizing, organizing, and interpreting sensory information: top-down processing: recognizing what the pieces from bottom-up processing put together actually mean. Realizing that the red is a stop sign and now you know what to do.
