Psychology 2115A/B Lecture : Unit 1

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2115A/B
• Professor: Stephen Lupker

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Sept 10th: perception: the process of extracting information from the environment. Incomplete de nition; perception involves a lot more than extracting information e. x. Using knowledge not from the stimulus, but from your head: perception: the conscious experience of objects and object relations. Sometimes you"re not conscious of objects in situations (e. x. ______________________________________________________________________ metatheory: a set of untestable assumptions about the world that form a framework for subsequent scienti c behavior theory: testable. The body and the mind must interact; found the pineal gland at the base of the neck (said that"s where dual interaction occurs) Explanations why things happen/how they work; proposals of the way the world is. Collecting data which tells us if the theory is correct or not: empirical research. Creating conditions where only one thing changes from condition to condition experiment: planned manipulation of an independent variable to observe the changes in.