PSYC1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sensory System, Proprioception, Arthur Schopenhauer
23 Nov 2016
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Our perceptual system is not 100% representation of our world. We take massive amount of information, and use shortcuts to interpret the world, but not exactly tell you what the world is. We can only attend to one perception once: vase-face illusion, muller-lyer illusion (which one is longer?) We built expectations for objects based on what we"ve experienced in the real world: the hermann grid illusion, subject contours. Our perceptual system make the best guess of what we"re seeing. Sensation and perception is not the same thing. Sensation is at the receptor level, the receptors for sensory systems register energy from the external environment: sound, light, odors, etc --- low level , beginning inputs. Perception : when the information from sensation is processed witin the cns. It is, literally, what you perceive in essence , the content of your conscious experience. (how you interpret the information received)
