PSYO 3092 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Visual Cortex, Depth Perception, Visual Acuity

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 3092
• Professor: Mark Jaime

Document Summary

Perception allows us to behave sensibly in the world with respect to our survical and our reproductive interests. Allows us to see things that are adaptive to us. Instinct blindness: our inability to appreciate the complexity of our mental processes because they seem automatic and inevitable to us. Makes it hard to appreciate perception and hence the complexity of the adaptations underlying vision. Our brain and visual system construct the things we see. Things are interesting or beautiful with respect to our reproductive success because they serve some adaptive purpose. Light reflects off of surfaces, that light is being transmitted to your eyes in a certain frequency/wave length. Lower frequency shows darker colors, higher frequencies show bright colors. Qualia: the way we perceive the qualitative aspects of our environments. Given the vast amount of potential information available in the environment, infants need some type of information-selection process.