PSY 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Color Constancy, Subjective Constancy, Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
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Organizing principles of (visual) perception holistic properties of perception vs. structuralist approaches. Direction of our visual attention vs. attention capture. When there is no flicker, the appearance/disappearance of objects is not masked by a disruption in the view certain important kinds of stimuli can cue our attention automatically. Evolutionary considerations in change blindness" study: new, cosmides & tooby (2007) We preferentially attend to animals and people because they move more sporadically. Social cuing of attention seems to be automatic social cues seem to cause attention shifts automatically: (ex: eyes looking somewhere) Americans focus only on the foreground face ex: 2 cases: central figure looking in wrong direction, background people looking in correct direction; central figure looking in correct direction, background people looking in wrong direction. East asians show no cueing effect from the central face when there are people in the background looking in the opposite direction.
