PSYC 2390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Contact Lens, Railways Act 1921, Visual Search

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2390
• Professor: Lana Trick

Document Summary

Allows us to recognize things even when they are in diferent forms. Object perception the ability to see an object as a whole. Have to decide what parts belong to the object and which don"t (are background/other things: organizing information. What is needed in order to name something basis of intelligent behaviour: knowing when you see something twice recognizing familiar objects. Involves perception and memory see something and you form a representation of it in your mind, symbolize it to yourself (can"t put a dog in your brain) and then store it in long term memory. Using long term memory, your past experiences and knowledge, to help determine what you perceive: a list of letters will be a, b, c, d, e, a list of numbers after will be 10, 11, 12, 13. Even though the 13 looks like a b past experience: my phone number is area code 604-8136158*, please call!