PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Olfaction, Stapes, Nociceptor
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A set of mental tendencies and assumptions that affects how we perceive sensations. Regardless of viewing angle, shape, size, or illumination differences, we can still identify objects in our environment. Mostly due to contextual information (experience, expectations, memories) You can still see the same color, even though the lighting changed. Shape constancy shapes are constant even if the angle changes. Depth perception human eye outside in. Pupil allows light to enter the eye. Iris allow more or less light in (muscles that control pupils) Retina multilayered tissue back of the eye, filled with cones and . Optic disc blind spot, nerve bundles leaving the eye no photo receptors, thus blind. Optic nerve part that is going to the brain. When do babies get depth perception cliff experiment. Each eye receives its own slightly different, image. Combination of the two images to give us a sense of depth, fusing the two single image.
