PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Peanut Butter, Color Vision, Nanometre

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Daniel J Levitin

Document Summary

Perception and mental representations: today i want to talk about perception. Perception is the means by which we link to external world to our inner mental world. If it sounds jargon, it"s a bunch of language that comes from cognitive psychology. The idea is that, what we"re building up in our minds, in our brains, is some representation of that world. These internal representations allow us to interact with the world: you expect that when you buy chocolate ice cream from ben and jerry"s, it"s going to taste like it did last time. If you buy an ice cream and if it"s a sour awful taste that you don"t remember being there before, you might think that it"s spoiled. It"s the mental representation that allows you to think that: we have mental representations about things like gravity. When you see something thrown, you expect it to fall eventually.