PSY1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Interposition, Railways Act 1921, Connectionism

• School: Monash University
• Department: Health Sciences - Psychology
• Course: PSY1022

Document Summary

Prescribed readings: chapter 3 (sensation and perception 2) pp. The process through which people take raw sensations from the environment and interpret them, using knowledge, experience and understanding of the world, so that the sensations become meaningful experiences. To illustrate the workings of these complex systems, psychologists draw attention to perceptual failures, cases in which our perceptual experience of a stimulus differs from the actual characteristics of that stimulus. An approach to perception that focuses on how computations by the nervous system translate raw sensory stimulation into an experience of reality. An approach to perception taken by those who argue that the perceptual system uses fragments of sensory information to construct an image of reality. An approach to perception maintaining that humans and other species are so well adapted to their natural environment that many aspects of the world are perceived without requiring higher-level analysis and inferences.