PSYC 200 Lecture Notes - Ear Canal, Interposition, Lightdark
11 Feb 2014
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Seeing is believing: by making the process more problematic, we can understand sensation and perception, picture of a. Dalmatian dog pop-up effect: figure ground issue (gestalt) figure and background. Illusions tell us how our perception works: both dots in middle the same size, context effect mitigated by what they"re surrounded by, sensation: light hits receptors fire stimulates/inhibits other neurons, perception, contrast effect. Impossible to see both at the same time: perceptual processes are theory-driven know what we"re look for, prime people to see one or the other. Glasses: perception = organizing and interpreting, finding meaning in what we perceive, deciding whether it"s a rabbit or a duck, applying meaning. 2: attention affected by, stimulus characteristics. E. g. red lights draw attention: personal factors individual variability. Personal vigilance things you"re particularly looking for: e. g. scanning a sea of faces. Made non-noxious word reappear during training phase e. g. book , would give people shocks if word appeared.
