PSY280H1 Lecture Notes - Optical Illusion, Tabula Rasa, Retina
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Humans: visual animal human depends on visions so much that other senses are neglected, the same does not apply to animals. Sensation: peripheral devices bringing input into our central nervous system. Perception: the way we think of the world/knowledge the working of the brain. Consciousness happens when sensory receptors pick up information processed by the brain and interacts them with experience. The person is always a part of the perceptual experience. Stimulus: what is out there in the environment, what we actually pay attention to, and what stimulates our receptors. Exists in the environment and within our body. Environmental stimulus: all things in the environment that we can potentially perceive (the surroundings) Attended stimulus: the subject of a person"s attention; changes from moment to moment as the person"s attention shifts (the moth) Stimulus on the receptor: formation of a representation of the attended stimulus on the receptor (image of the moth on the retina)
