PSY280H1 Lecture Notes - Achromatopsia, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Change Blindness
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Www. notesolution. com: is above the other three boxes b/c it can have its effect at many different points in the process, perception gives us knowledge about the world, but we also bring existing knowledge to perception. rat-man demonstration shows how recently acquired knowledge can influence perception. long ego learned knowledge influences the categorizing of objects: bottom up processing - data-based processing is based on incoming data. Incoming data always provides the starting point of perception because without incoming data there is no perception: top-down processing knowledge-based processing - the processing that is based on knowledge. Metaphysics: what is the world made of, monism. Epistemology: what do we know and how do we gain knowledge, rationalism a priori truths gain knowledge through reasoning and deduction, empiricism a posteriori truths gain knowledge through observation and induction. Socrates (470-399 bc: we are reminded of what we already know.