PSYCH207 Chapter 3: Chapter 3 Notes
20 Sep 2016
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Perception: the interpretation of sensory information to yield a meaningful description or understanding. Explaining how we attach meaning to the sensory information we receive. Distal stimulus: an object, event, or pattern as it exists in the world. Proximal stimulus: reception of information and its registration by a sense organ: meaning interpretation is percept: the outcome of a perceptual process; the meaningful interpretation of incoming information. However, percepts are not the same things as proximal stimuli. Size constancy: the phenomenon that one"s perception of an object remains constant even as the retinal image of the object changes size. Because the object has moved closer or farther away from the perceiver. Retina: a layer of visual receptor cells at the rear of the eyeball. Retinal image: a proximal stimulus for vision, consisting of the projection of light waves reflected from stimuli and projected to a surface at the back of the eye o.
