PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cognitive Bias, Pattern Matching, Cognitive Load
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At any moment of perception there are many pieces of information bombarding us from out reality. We can"t perceive all the information we only have access to a limited subset of reality. Sensitivity of our sensory mechanisms: we are all experiencing different subjective realities (dog vs human) Reality= what we are capable of perceiving though senses + our attention. We are not directly interacting with reality, but rather, we are creating a fiction about reality and interacting with this fiction: difference between the character in a story and the observer of the story. Perception is generation of interpretation of reality, a process of creative storytelling and i(cid:374)fere(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g (cid:894)(cid:449)e li(cid:448)e i(cid:374) our stories(cid:895) (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) a true story process of pattern matching. Like brains look for correspondence between patterns that they have stored though past experience and the patterns of sensory stimuli it is currently experiencing.
