Psychology 2015A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Backward Masking, Subliminal Stimuli, Visual Cortex

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2015A/B
• Professor: Patrick Brown

Document Summary

Visual agnosia an inability to identify objects visually even though they can be identified using other senses. Perception the processing of sensory information in such a way that it produces conscious experience and guides action in the world. Weiskrantz"s studies of blind sight suggest we may be able to perceive visual objects even when we have no conscious experiences of seeing them. William james stated that people are not actually aware of all of the things in their environment that they could be aware of. A code is a set of rues or operations that transforms items, objects, or data from one systematic form to another. Encoding refers to the process of transforming information into one or more forms of representation. Wickens suggested that encoding is largely automatic; they thought the task would be impossibly complicated if we had to be aware of what we were doing.