PSYCH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Trichromacy, Sound, Retina
11 Sep 2020
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Mental tendencies and assumptions that affect (top - down) what we hear, taste, feel, and see. Schemas organize and interpret unfamiliar information through experience. Preexisting schemas influence top-down processing of ambiguous sensation interpretation, including gender stereotypes. A given stimulus may trigger different perceptions because of immediate context. Africans who were questioned said the woman was balancing a metal box or can on her head and that the family was sitting under a tree. Distance from the peak of one light or sound wave to the peak of the next. Electromagnetic wavelengths vary from the short blips of cosmic rays to the long pulses of radio transmission. Dimension of color that is determined by the wavelength of light; what we know as the color names blue, green, and so forth. Amount of energy in a light wave or sound wave, which influences what we perceive as brightness or loudness. Intensity is determined by the wave"s amplitude (height)
