Psychology 2040A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Visual Acuity, Visual Cortex, Depth Perception

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: J.Bruce Morton

Document Summary

Sensation is the basic units of information recorded by a sensory receptor. Perception is the process of organizing and interpreting behaviors. Sensations are thought to be the building blocks of perception. Some people believe that newborns perception starts out as a haze of unorganized sensations and they learn how to process sensations over a lengthy period of time. Willia(cid:373) ja(cid:373)es" theor(cid:455) that (cid:374)e(cid:449)(cid:271)or(cid:374)s do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) ho(cid:449) to pro(cid:272)ess their se(cid:374)satio(cid:374)s at the (cid:271)egi(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g hi(cid:374)ts that it is a constructive process one imposing sense and order on the multisensory world. James and elanor gibson believe that babies come into this world ready to respond to perceptions, Some theorists believe that newborns have a set of core principals and mechanisms to process complex visual cues and that they can even see 3-d. We study what babies are feeling based on attention alertness or arousal focused on a specific environment.