PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pattern Matching

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Psy 100 - lecture 2 - fundamental insights to post. Fundamental insights #1: reality is a story, told to us by our brains. : perception: a process of creative story-telling and inference making. Highly functional for most of the time. Allows brain to function efficiently with little cost of accuracy. Brains look for a correspondence between pattern that is stored through experience, and the patterns of sensory stimuli it is currently experiencing. Brain use pre-existing pattern to interpret incoming signals. So if the brain cannot decode it either guesses about it, ignore it or just sees what it wants to see. Brain sees in the past is what it sees in the present. Processing information occurs implicitly and sub-representationally (out of our controls) We may make errors during the construction process. Hence, we can greatly improve our experience. Fundamental insights #2: attention: the importance of attention:

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