PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mecha
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1: reality is a story told to us by our brains. Construction involves guesswork or filling in the gaps experience of consciousness in brain sensitivity of sensory mech. attention capacity most efficient speed-accuracy tradeoff create fiction abt. reality and interact w/ this fiction. Perception (pattern-matching): patterns in brains resonating w/ current stimuli. Knowledge or patterns decode stimuli new stimulus: ignores/sees diff/confused. Buffalo from distance, guy with anthropologist thinks ants (savannas, size/distance not developed in dense trees) = constructed world hypothesis, tools. Reality: constructed representation, interpret patterns of sensory info. based on pre- existing patterns in brain + body. Consciousness: (mind, body, world) not rational, sub-representation, not linear, logical, explicit or subjective awareness: attention! Deterministic cause/effect (cause will lead to effect) free will (?) Limiting capacity shortcuts heuristics (e. g. stereotypes) reasoning shortcuts decision-making. Relying on beliefs biases due to perception (based on motivations that alter what we pay attn. to) behaviour.
