PSYC 3260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Word Superiority Effect, Change Blindness, Agnosia

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3260
• Professor: Alice Kim

Document Summary

For this section of the course (lecture 4 & chapter 3) you should be able to: 1) describe and differentiate different bottom-up models of perception, as discussed in class. 2) describe the role of bottom-up and top-down processes in perception. 3) describe and differentiate two types of visual agnosia. 5 major gestalt principles of perceptual organization. A pattern is compared to a stored representation (prototype) Prototype an idealized representation of some class of objects. Template - more specific, your matching a picture. Using existing knowledge to guide you - assumptions you already have in your mind. I. e - looking for a friend in a group of people. Perception is influenced by experience (e. g. knowledge, expectations, theories) Change blindness the inability to detect changes to an object or scenes, especially from different perspectives. When you are not attending to that particular object not paying particular attention to the object. If you are not attending to something, you won"t perceive it.