PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Depth Perception, Color Vision, Speech Perception
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Sensation : the low-level processing of basic information from the external world by sensory receptors (eyes, ears, skin, snoot, tongue) Our brain fills in the gaps of sensation to make it into perception. Perception : the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information about the objects, events, and spatial layout. We view objects in a way that maintains their color in our minds. The mind makes a series of educated guesses. Chess - ezpz to teach to comps. Instinct blindness - that feeling that something is so automatic and effortless can mask mental complexity. High level : recognition, categorization, intermodal correspondence. Prefer to look at interesting things over boring things. Two methods that use looking time in infancy; Preferential looking : babies like to look at interesting things. They will choose to look at the more interesting thing over boring things. Side preferences -> control by switching which side the stimuli are)
