PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Depth Perception, Multisensory Integration, Somnolence
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Psych 2110 lecture #4 perceptual development. Vestibulo-occular reflex [vor] is extremely fast [approx. The human mind is a very complex system. We have 5 senses and they are . It is driven by stimuli registered by ourselves. It starts from the most basic level and works its way up to more complex processing ex. Noticing a single person with a red hat in a crowd. The influence of concept, expectation & memory [knowledge] on cognitive processing. The expectation at higher level of cognitive processing work their way down ex. It develops very early by 3 or 4 months. Virtual figure in motion from minimal point cues. Preference for systematic animate motion @ birth. An example is dots on the screen but we are able to see that there is a moving person. The landmark experiment by gibson & walk [1960] created an apparatus to determine whether infants perceive depth.
