PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Visual Acuity, Stereopsis, Phoneme
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Lecture overview: concepts: sensation, perception, learning, early controversies, sensation and perception, intermodal perception, basic learning. Concepts and definitions: sensation: sensory receptors detect and process basic information from external world, perception: organization and interpretation of sensory input, learning: behaviors change as a result of experience. Early controversies: nature vs. nurture, empiricists: (nurture) infants must learn to interpret sensations. William james (1890) blooming , buzzing confusion : nativists: (nature) innate basic perceptual abilities, differentiation vs. enrichment, differentiation theory (gibson, 1969, 1987, 1992) Integrated and independent of experience, can be interpreted on its own. Children explore and learn to detect distinctive features: enrichment theory (piaget, 1954, 1960) Sensation and perception: vision and visual perception, hearing and auditory perception, taste and smell, touch, temperature, and pain. Vision: least mature sense in newborns, movement, colors, brightness, visual patterns, poor visual acuity, blurry, require sharper visual contrasts. Visual perception: pattern perception, object perception, depth perception.