KP161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychological Refractory Period, Information Processing, Decision-Making
7 Apr 2016
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Process by which meaning is attached to sensory information. Two approaches for explaining the nature of perception: The type of input available such as a goalie kicking. Is there another player approaching: decision making phase i. Selecting an appropriate response based on history: execution phase i. Organize and execute the selected response: feedback, ecological approach, environment and task are perceived directly, affordances: i. ii. iii. Action possibilities of the environment/task in relation to the perceivers/observer/individual capabilities. Perception of the environment/task in terms of the actions the perceiver can potentially exert on it (a bar stool affords an adult to sit but a child to climb: ecological approach to perception: i. Views the relationship between perception and action as circular: perception based on affordances i. ii. A direct relationship exists between perception and action. No two people perceive the same affordance in any situation.
