PSYC 3466 Lecture 4: 1/16/19 cognition
27 Jan 2019
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Method: participants viewed scenarios, chose a path to pick up a bucket and place it on a stool. Paths of different lengths and orientations shown. Results: difference in length of two possible paths determined how fast a path was chosen. Total lengths of time did not determine time. Conclusion: parallel (rather than serial) processing of course of action. Total time is shorter than serial processing because we are doing two things at once. Realize the difference in the paths sooner and it becomes the piece of info to come up with a decision. Serial processing would take a little bit longer. Use parallel processing for objects with distances. In motion perception, we must figure out the following. We estimate how accurate we need to be too. We analyze features of a scene that includes motion. Movement in scene, movement of retinal images are part of data we crunch. We perceive based on the sensory organs with most organization.
