Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Proprioception, Eardrum, Neural Adaptation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

When we look at something, we need to make inferences. Visual cues allows us to perceptually organize by taking into account the following cues: depth, Humans have two eyes which allows them to receive visual cues from their environment by binocular cues. These give them a sense of depth: this gives them retinal disparity. Eyes are ~2. 5 inches apart which allows humans to get slightly different views of objects of world around. Gives humans an idea on depth: convergence: gives humans an idea of depth as well based on how much eyeballs are turned. Things far away - muscles of eyes are relaxed. Humans also have visual cues they receive which they do not need two eyes for. These are monocular cues: these give humans a sense of form of an object. The closer an object it is perceived as being bigger. Gives us an idea of form. (ebbinghaus illusion) Perception that one object is in front of another.