PSYCH 3GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fetus, Operant Conditioning, Altricial
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Lecture 9 september 27: world record for speed in downhill skiing for a blind person. Blind spot on retina - the brain is constructing something plausible that will fill in the blind spot, you are never aware of it: ex. Movies are just a series of still pictures, but you see motion - your brain is constructing this: ex. Colour - there is no such thing as colour in the real world - your brain constructs the colour you see relative to the environment. The brain constructs percepts instinct blindness makes that process invisible to us. What is the function of perception: the way we see the world compared to how other species sees the world is dependent on function. Nothing is in the mind but that it was first in the senses - but you don"t actually get to see what is true in the world - ex.