PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: I Love Paris, Genetic Recombination, Retina
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Ex: participants all saw different things when looking at the same exact pics: sensation: physical activation of receptors. * only thinking of action potential; not interpretation. Sensation is data driven -- depends on energy (light waves, pressure on skin) Also called bottom-up processing (senses to brain/peripheral to brain) Also called top-down processing (occur in brain -- each have our perspectives -- due to: perception: attaching psychological meaning. Perceptual organization; we tend to organize things. Allows us to make sense of the world; accurate perception enables identification and recognition. We rely on concepts that may lead us astray (bias) * experiences allow us to make sense of sensations. We see things as 3d and normal because of what we know: figure ambiguity: We distort things -- plato: illusion: put something where it doesn"t belong; in a different concept if not familiar then we analyze wrong; something activates chemical senses but (misinterpretation of sensation)
