PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Retina, Fusiform Face Area, Neuropsychology
20 Nov 2018
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Some basic characteristics of perception: perception: experiences resulting from stimulation of the senses. Perception can change based on added info. Perception can involve a process similar to reasoning or problem solving. Perception occurs so rapidly and effortlessly that it appears to be automatic. But, perception does involve complex, and usually invisible, processes that do resemble reasoning, even though they occur much more rapidly than we can realize. Perception can be based on a perceptual rule (when objects overlap, the one underneath usually continues behind the one on top) May be based on a person"s past experiences. Perceiving a scene: must go beyond the pattern of light and dark that a scene creates on a retina. The stimulus on the receptors is ambiguous: perceptual system is not concerned with determining an objects image on the retina. Starts with image on retina, but its job is to determine the objects out there that created the image inverse projection problem.
