PSYC 3350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Optical Illusion, Hindsight Bias, Episodic Memory
28 Nov 2013
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Cognition all mental processes we use to transform sensory input into knowledge. High-order mental processes: thinking, reasoning, language, memory, problem solving. In psychology culture is viewed as a set of mental representations of the world. Hofstede (1980) called culture mental programming" like computer software, different cultural. Programs" exist that enable individuals to engage in different behaviours given same hardware. Culture is a knowledge system that enables groups to solve complex problems of living and social life, enabling them to survive more functionally and effectively. Priming research technique that looks at how one stimulus affects another. Our perceptions don"t necessarily match the realities of the world ex- the eye has a blind spot but due to micro saccades (micro eye movements) the brain fills in what is being missed. Segal, campbell, herskovits (1963, 1966) studied optical illusions which is what much of what we know about cultural influences on perception come from.
