PSYB51H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychophysics, Ancient Philosophy, Empiricism
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Important concepts and questions in modern psychology are rooted in ancient philosophy. If you"re talking a(cid:271)out what you (cid:272)an feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted (cid:271)y your (cid:271)rain. This is the world that you know. (cid:863) morpheus" a(cid:374)s(cid:449)er to neo in the matrix, 1999. Everything changes (and only change matters: especially for perception perception is about change perceiving. The nativism and empiricism of knowledge: dualism vs. materialism. Some animals are able to sense stimuli that humans cannot. Dogs have very good hearing and very good sense of smell. Ecolocation: animals emit calls out to the environment and listen to the echoes of those calls that return from various objects near them. Plato" s (cid:862)the allegor(cid:455) of the ca(cid:448)e(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1007)(cid:1012)(cid:1004) Perception and your sense of reality are the products of evolution: survival. Importance of type of energy in the environment determines which senses have developed (ex.
