PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Subjective Constancy, Detection Theory, Neural Coding

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Pencil in glass of water see disconnected line. Light bends --> diff surfaces what we see is not actually what is out there. Once weve accepted whats really out there and what we experience leads us down a path. Reality is what we make of it constructed in our own lives why we can play tricks on ppl alice and wonderland effect tricking senses. Listening for physical info translating into something brain can work with electric signals job of receptors : turn physical info into electric signals. Job of brain: turn electric signals into an idea. Pathway , not origin, determines perception jhannes uller 1835. All of our senses deliver info through nerves. We actually don"t pick up most information. Our eyes don"t pick up certain parts of scenes we don"t know that"s there our brain fills that in for us that becomes clear when we look at light spectrum.