PSY 3108 Lecture Notes - Olfactory Bulb, Moon Illusion, Graduate School

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3108
• Professor: Catherine Plowright

Document Summary

Chapter 1 in chaudhuri: why study perception, methods in perception research, measuring perceptions quantitatively. Why study perception? arts, intelligent systems programming: future careers: graduate school work in perception, cognition etc. ; clinical areas too: applies to many other areas (design, graphic, understanding the immense intricacy of the, because it is very very cool! (yes, i"m biased) sensory systems. Research perception: what are some reasons for studying, give an example of how perception applies, de ne na ve realism . Schwaninger, a. , carbon, c. c. , & leder, h. (2003). Perception response accuracy: thresholds are de ned for a given level of, typically we speak of the 50% threshold , meaning the physical quantity detectable (absolute threshold) or the physical difference detectable (difference threshold) 50% of the time: but a threshold can be de ned for any level of accuracy (e. g. , 75%, 83. 6%) Instructions: adjust the intensity of the light using the slider until you can just barely see it.