EXP 3204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ciliary Muscle, Arthropod Eye, Presbyopia

• School: UCF
• Department: Experimental Psychology
• Course: EXP 3204
• Professor: Daniel Mc Connell

Document Summary

Study of behavior: memories, language, emotion, technical skills. Take some actions for granted like walking and standing, etc. Use perception to gage thoughts on the world. Use of immediate move of actions in the world. How to know how we interact with world? (epistemology) Debate: born with it (rationalist view) or learn it (empiricist view) Born with all the knowledge base and all else is derived throughout our life based on innate knowledge. Plato"s idea of (cid:271)or(cid:374) (cid:449)ith all out k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge. Genetics hold a lot of information encoded into our dna and determines (cid:449)hat thi(cid:374)gs are (cid:272)reated (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:455)ou"re living. Scientific rationalism: one organism did not have the information in the dna and we have to figure out how it evolved to send the information we have down the line. Learned information through our senses (sensory modalities) and perception: kinesthesis/proprioception (knowledge of what posture you move): Embedded in muscles: without smell one cannot taste properly.