PSY321H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hindsight Bias, Field Dependence, Twin Study
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O variations in artistic traditions across cultures: why, matter of conventions, differences in underlying psychological processes, masuda et al (2008, higher horizons in landscape scenes and smaller portraits, differences in how people from different cultures see the world. Sensation - input about the physical world provided by our sensory receptors. Imagine walking through a museum: perceptions that involve an apparent discrepancy between how an object looks and what it actually is, ex. Two lines are shown, which line is longer: westerners are more likely to be fooled by this illusion, rivers (1905, why, retinal object size. Same retinal size the farther figure is larger. We use cues to judge depth and size: how we interpret 3d, carpentered world theory. Westerners: line a (arrowheads pointing inwards) is longer than line b (arrowheads pointing outwards) When two objects occupy the same size retinal image - the more distant object is larger.
