PSY321H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Optical Illusion, Problem Solving, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
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Culture, cognition & perception: simone walker, phd, culture & Lecture outline: visual perception, categorization, attention, problem solving, creativity, social cognition, consciousness* (textbook talks about this, read from the textbook) Imagine walking through a museum: variations in artistic traditions across cultures. Why: matter of conventions, different in underlying psychological processes, masuda et al (2008) Different in how people from different cultures see the world. East asian pictures had higher horizons in the landscapes and the size of the portraits were smaller than western pictures: cognitive tools that are available to all people, but. Basic psychological processes: sensation, perception sensory receptors. Input about the physical world provided by our sensory receptors. The process through which we select, organize, and interpret input from our: we do not perceive the world as it is . we just interpret it, cognition problem-solving, and all other forms of higher mental processes. The activities involved in thinking, reasoning, decision-making, memory,
