PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Wine Tasting, Wolverine, Pattern Matching
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Our experiences do not reflect reality itself, but rather a construction, or representation of reality this construction process involves a lot of guesswork ( filling in the gaps ) this subjective representation occurs within the brain. We only have access to a limited subset of reality. The limitations of our sensory-perceptual system are due to: the sensitivity of our sensory mechanisms. Perception is a process of creative story-telling and inference making, we have to fill in a lot of gaps. This is highly functional most of the time. But this means that we are not directly interacting with reality, but rather, we are creating a fiction about reality, and we hope it"s a pretty close match. It is as though our brains looks for a correspondence between patterns that have been stored in it through our past experience, and the patterns of sensory stimuli it is currently experiencing.
