PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Psychology, The Features, Prefrontal Cortex

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Naseem Al-Aidroos

Document Summary

Believing is seeing - what you expect to see is what you see. Tend to impose our own beliefs on the world. 9 images flashed, if you were asked if there was a bakery, most people say yes. Shows that our ability to recognize things is very fast. Object perception and visual perception in general is very fast, does not require much effort, mostly automatic. Not to say that it can"t be slow or effortful, but most of the time these are true. The faster you try to do it, the more mistakes you make. How does visual perception work, why do we make the mistakes that we do; what are the types of mistakes that we make when we try to recognize things too quickly. Final set of stimuli at the right is much harder to find the red circle - attention harder to find the red circle - attention does not immediately go to it.