Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dishabituation, Face Perception, Visual Perception

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: J.Bruce Morton

Document Summary

Visual illusions are a way of illustrating the way that our sensory organs give us a good sense of what is in the world but there is a lot of interpretation that goes on. What we perceive is partly a product of what our senses are doing but also our own interpretation of what we see. Perception develops over time, how we see the world may be different from the way an infant sees the world. Perceptual development systematic age related changes in the interpretation of sensory information. Empiricism john locke origins of human knowledge is born naive about the outside world and the mind doesn"t have any innate knowledge but it can learn through experience. This is how one develops an understanding of the world. Nativism these regularities aren"t things that an individual has to relearn with every generation, with the evolution of the sensory systems the knowledge about how the world is organized is passed through the generations.