PSY247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sense Of Balance, Body Awareness, Thermoception
Document Summary
"out there" there is only physics (forces, pressure, light etc. ) "in here" there is only psychology (i. e. neural activity - experiences) Physical stimuli are "transduced" into nerve impulses (electrical signals) by our sense organs. We experience these as a interpretation of the world via sounds, shapes, colours, smells, heat etc. Perception (psychophysics) deals with the relationship between physical stimuli & their subjective, or psychological correlates. Perception determines what we believe is real and mediates everything we have ever learned. Clinical psychology: eating disorders, body image distortion, misperception of body size, perceptual component. Inability to recognise facial emotion in: psychopaths (fear, sadness, depression, autism, schizophrenia. Forensic psychology: eyewitness testimony, weapons focus, facial identification, police identity parades, other race effect. Stereopsis: 3d movies, autostereograms, aka "sirds" (single image. Illusions in faces: thatcher illusion - turn upside down. The photoshopped one looks weird upside down but weirder upright. Illusions of motion: motion aftereffect (mae or "waterfall.
