Psychology 2115A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dependent And Independent Variables, Monism, Psych

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2115A/B
• Professor: Stephen Lupker

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2-3 questions on the three previous sections. Perception definition: (cid:498)the process of extracting information from the environment(cid:499) very vague, (cid:498)the conscious experience of objects and object relationships(cid:499) - better. Involved the interaction of this information with what we know from memory. Example: 3 packman which forms an imaginary triangle between them. You see a triangle because you are aware of what triangles are. Your perception puts this together without you being conscious of it. You put this together because of your memory, not the environment. As soon as we get a description of mental information, most of us will be able to perceive the information. It is a photo of a cow"s face, the lines on the right side of the cows face are not drawn in. Once they tell you what it is and describe how the characteristics work, you see it. There are things that happen to us that do not reach consciousness but that affect our behaviour.