PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pattern Matching

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Psychology making explicit claims about consciousness better understanding of self and others. Fundamental insights: reality is a story, told to us by our brain. Individuals view is one perspective: situates our understanding of the connections between mind, body and experience, consciousness is not linear, logical process. Understanding these insights helps us understand how we construct reality: attention, filtering/selecting attention. Accuracy of information possible if in taking all signals a: consciousness and unconsciousness but now explicit processes and implicit process. What we pay attention to vs. how we internally analyze it. It determines how we determine reality: we have limited capacity to process info. Interpreting the world as we see it, not a reflection of what it actually is. We are experiencing construction / representation of reality. The process involves a lot of guesswork to fill in gaps of knowledge. We have access to a limited subset of reality limitation of our sensory-perceptual system due to:

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