PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Prosopagnosia, Sensory Neuron, Absolute Threshold
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Prosopagnosia: more commonly known as face blindness, inability to recognize faces, they don"t see nothing, they see a face but they can"t recognize who it is, some individuals will use other context clues. Sensation: information from the environment we receive through sensory receptors. Perception: what we do with that information iclicker: why might prosopagnosia be a disorder that is sensation without perception: tell me! Bottom-up processing: build up from the small parts of a stimulus to make a larger whole, ex. Features letters word: when we are building from nothing. Top-down processing: drawing on prior knowledge and expectations, ex. Seeing shapes in shadows: when we have prior knowledge to help us. Mini-writing #11: come up with your own example for one of the following terms: bottom-up processing, top-down processing iclicker: sam has worked at the same sandwich shop for 3 years.
