PSY100H1 Lecture : LECTURE 1.pdf
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Has useful applications for helping people ex. education, social work. Insight 1: reality=story created by our brains, ctitious-> we are authors of our own stories. We are not really interacting and perceiving the real world, we only interact with our own interpretations of reality. Brain =\= mirror, (doesn"t re ect things accurately) functions more like painter of reality. We cause ourselves misery by taking things to be real that aren"t. We only have access to a limited subset of information. >sensory perception is limited (limited receptivity; some things are beyond human capabilities i. e. sounds at higher frequencies), we also have limited attention spans therefore some pieces of info are not registered by our brains. We function and navigate reality based on the limited amount of info we do perceive. Perception: perception: turning bits of information (sensations we received) and translating it into something we understand. we act on these perceptions and treat these perceptions as reality.
