[Psychology 2115A/B] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (18 pages long)

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2115A/B
• Professor: Philippe Chouinard

Document Summary

Study guide: lecture 1 sept 12, 2016. Perception: the process of extracting information from the environment. Problem perception involves other things as well (i. e. interaction of that information with what you know in memory) Three packman circles with a triangle in the middle: not an actual triangle but you see it b/c of your mental representation of what a triangle is. Image with black blobs: everyone perceives something different but incorrect, as soon as you get a structure (mental information) for what it is, most people will see the object (a cow) Perception: the conscious experience of objects and object relationships. Problem unconscious perception influences behaviour as well. Intermediate stimulus speeds up your reaction time even though you cannot consciously say that you saw it. 5 principe"s of perception: (socar: continuous goes on all the time without interruption, corresponds to objective measures (core principle) anything you can measure objectively will be reflected in our perceptual processes.