PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Prosopagnosia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

When your brain takes information, it is collected and translated by senses, the brain then analyzes, organizes, selects and interprets it in a meaningful way. o! We use experience, knowledge, believes, etc to interpret and make sense of information. They can see a face but do not recognize whose face it is. Perception but not sensation: influences on perception. We perceive the world through our experiences and biases, not how the world is. Mental predisposition to perceive life and its events in a particular, specific way. o! It comes from totality of our life experiences. o! We use those experiences as a filter to life. o! People perceive events through the filter of their own experiences. It can influence and affect what and how we perceive. o! Eap (animal ape) or (vegetables pea) o! He believed in order to create emotions in tv, a good actor wasn"t needed. Creating the right context is what is important.