PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Subjective Constancy, Retina, Color Constancy
23 Oct 2016
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The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimuli from our environment. The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events. Why don"t we perceive the world as upside down when it is reflected that way on. All of our senses are coming in and saying the world is up right. My vision is the back of our retina? saying is down. Brain flips our vision cause its easier to flip one. Perceptual constancy perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal image change. [image of a quarter facing the front shifting to the back] Shape constancy retinal image will be different, but we interpret as the same coin. Even though the farther away person takes up less . Big monster chasing the small monster however they are the same size. [image of two squares of gray but the same color]
