PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Relative Luminance, Eleanor J. Gibson, Color Constancy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

1-selective attention: focus of awareness on a small part of our experience, what was not attended to, do not remember, partially processed, cocktail party phenomenon, can only really fully attend to one thing at time, eg. Illustrates selective attention: more than one perception (can only experience one at a time) Inappropriate interpretations of physical reality: reveal how we organize and interpret sensations, often result from brain using otherwise adaptive organizing principles, ex. The lengths of the two lines look different but they are the same. The difference comes in the positioning of the arrow lines. Visual capture: visual sense tends to dominate when other senses conflict, visual image are self dominating. Figure and ground: must be able to separate faces from their background, eye-brain system first perceptual task is to perceive any object (figure) as distinct from its surroundings (ground, ex.