PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Iceberg, Leviathan, Subliminal Stimuli
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Before they can construct perceptions, our brains have to learn how . What our brains see in the present depends on what we see in the past. What we learned from cats - in a gradual, bidirectional process of brain environment adaptation, experience teaches our brains how to perceive reality, giving us knowledge about what the world looks like. Chronic habits of the mind - highly accessible pieces of information (habits of the mind) Whatever is currently or very recently on your mind - the particular knowledge structures that are activated and can guide information processing. The various rules the brain uses to construct representations of the world. The brain evolved to detect patterns and to make the external environment coherent. Many illusions occur as a result of misleading contextual cues. We have looked at how our brains construct a reasonable representation of reality, based on limited information.
