PSY 252 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Epicharmus Of Kos, Presbyterian Polity, Reductionism
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Psy 252 chapter 1: sensation and perception: our knowledge of the world is dependent on our senses, faith in your senses is a vital part of existence, epicharmus (450 bc) said the mind sees and the mind hears. The rest is blind and deaf : the classis greek building, the parthenon, was built in a distorted fashion to offset perceptual distortions; if it were geometrically square, it wouldn"t be perceptually square. Illusions occur when there"s a disagreement between percept and reality. Sensation: someone studying sensation, or sensory processes, is interested in the first contact between the organism and the environment, tend to focus on less complex (although not less complicated) aspects of our conscious experience. Perception: someone studying perception is concerned with our conscious experience of objects and object relationships, how we form a conscious representation of the outside environment and the accuracy of that representation.
