PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Subjective Constancy, Gestalt Psychology, Motion Perception
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Perception- interpretation of the information the brain receives. What is in your sensory field at this moment, a minute ago, and what is remembered from the past. Bottom-up (sensation) sensory info that"s assembled and integrated. What else do i see? (can hear a new language, but not understand it) Starts in association cortex and goes to the back to. Top-down (perception) models, ideas, and expectations to interpret sensory data into meaning. Is it something i"ve seen before? (making sense of something) Parallel- attending to multiple sense modalities simultaneously (color, motion, form, depth) Economize sensory processing to make [highly] educated guesses. Use top-down processing to hypothesize about meaning of sensory input. Perceptual sets- experiences setting one up to interpret ambiguous stimuli in a certain way. Context effect- use of present sensory information to determine meaning of ambiguous stimuli. Priming- setting up for a specific answer or a misconception.
