PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Capgras Delusion, Prosopagnosia, Agnosia

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Tiffany Doan

Document Summary

Module 3 perception perception is attaching names and meanings to all sorts of stimuli: bottom-up processes: how info. in the stimulus affects perception. Top-down processes: the context, prior experience or expectations have on perception. Bottom-up processes: operates reflexively, passively and/or unconsciously. Comparing stimulus to templates in memory until a match is found and object can be named. Large # of templates must be stored and searched: model does not explain how we can recognize new object, does not explain how we are able to deal with surface variation in stimuli, feature analysis. We recognize objects by recognizing their component parts and the manner in which they are combined (cid:862) elf(cid:396)idge(cid:859)s pa(cid:374)de(cid:373)o(cid:374)iu(cid:373) model(cid:863) Selfridge used this model to illustrate how features could be recognized and assembled to promote perception: note: (cid:862)de(cid:373)o(cid:374)s(cid:863) (cid:396)espo(cid:374)d loudl(cid:455) o(cid:396) (cid:395)uietl(cid:455) depe(cid:374)di(cid:374)g o(cid:374) ho(cid:449) (cid:272)o(cid:374)fide(cid:374)t the(cid:455) a(cid:396)e, (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h will be impacted by the clarity/quality of the stimulus.