PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Julie Andrews, James Vicary, Unconscious Mind

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Higher level processing lower level processing. Moving from the general to the specific. Imposing a framework onto data eg. effects of expectations, biases, beliefs, etc on perception. Stereotypes pre existing beliefs influence your interpretation of data: top down. Julie andrews (set of expectations), you are primed to interpret things in accordance to julie andrew. The gestalt theorist emphasized top-down processing, recognizing that the whole was greater then the sum of parts . How we make sense of the world. Law of pragnez we tend to interpret reality in the simplest way possible, seeing wholes" instead of a bunch of parts". This helps us perceive more efficiently, but means we often miss the nuances: studying! Learning bottom-up process; trying to add to an understanding. The quicker you can get to the understanding, the more you allow top down processing to enhance efficiency of understanding.