PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gestalt Psychology, Railways Act 1921, Ambiguous Image

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

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Psychology day five sensation and perception (chapter 4) Sensation: perception, vision, visual capture, form perception, polling. Tuesday and thursday : 1 hour in class no lecture. Worth 20 % of final grade: text, read chapters. Sensation: based on activity of the sense receptors, sense receptors; eyes, skin, ears, mouth taste, smell, vision, hearing and touch (we will spend more time on vision, how physical energy is transformed into neural impulses. Light = wavelengths --- high retina --- transformed into sight by the brain. Have to know about retina and all the different receptors: sensation is primarily bottom up processing. From the outer world, to the senses, to the brain. So it first detects specific features of stimulus, then it combines specific features into more complex forms then it recognizes stimulus. Perception: elaboration, transformation, interpretation, of what is registered by the sense, assignment of meaning to sensory experiences, perception is a top-down process, subjective contours (pg.