PSYC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Saccade, Neural Adaptation, Somatosensory System
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Perception: standing in the classroom and see students. Various parts of the eye: only thing we didn"t talk about is blood vessel: no labeling, the parts of the eye, what they do, and roughly where they are located, retina: different cells. Trichromatic theory = young/helmholtz theory: color blindness. Hearing: hearing, bones in middle ear, how vibrations get from air to eardrum to interpreting sound. Why do you think of your grandma when you smell cookies: because olfactory bulb pathway goes through your amygdala. Illusions: what they are called and why. Herman: different cones that code for edges, corners, etc. they happen at the same time. Three process of perception: selection, organization, interpretation. Top-down: memory guide: dark apartment; bed bathroom. Bottom-up: no previous memories at all; perception guides you. Sleep: know what circadian rhythms are, and how melatonin is released. Theories of sleep: why we need sleep: restorative, why we sleep when we sleep: adaptive, know the differences between the two.
