01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Change Blindness, Ambiguous Image, David H. Hubel

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: ESTELLE MAYHEW

Document Summary

Change blindness : a failure to notice a large amount of changes in one"s environment. Laptops in the classroom : the rise of laptop computers and smartphones in the classroom over the last decade has increased the difficulty for instructors to hold student"s attention. Sensation : it"s the detection of stimuli in the environment by the senses. Light : the only thing going into your eyes, is light waves that bounces off the object and hits the eye. Air pressure waves are the only things entering your ear, no voices. Molecules in food and drinks : taste is really molecules and they latch onto taste buds. Receptors : specialized cells in our sensory organs that detect the stimulus and convert it into a language the nervous system understands. Perception processing , organizing, and interpretation of sensory signals. Bottom-up processing : perception based on the physical features of the stimulus.