PSYCH-UA 1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Subjective Constancy, Blood Sugar, Operant Conditioning
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Exam 2 notes: sensation, perception, learning and memory (chapters 4, 5, 7 and 8) Theory that the human mind is a blank slate at birth. Distal and proximal stimuli: association between what i see and how i react to get a sense of depth and size. Man and infant occupy the same stimuli at the back of the eye. Distal actual object of reference, distant from observer. Proximal representation at the sense organ, in close proximity to observer"s brain distal is a, proximal is b. Man and child (distal stimulus) different heights, different distances away from proximal stimuli. Emmanuel cont: said there must also be an innate/inherited characteristic established before your senses. Associative learning: perspective may cause different-sized distal objects to appear the same size proximally. Experience with walking towards and reaching for these objects teaches us about perspective/depth. Bishop george berkeley is first to question how this is possible.
