PSYA01H3 Lecture 19: Psychology Lecture 19.docx
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Ernst weber- interested in our subjective states and perceptions of the world. Different weights, and you have to see which weights are heavier, which lights are brighter. Finishing the ends of sentences, its an instinctive ability for humans to be able to finish sentences. Our brain is a little ahead of our ears, the world is being analyzed, interpreted and assumptions and predictions are being made as well. Bottom up , and top down influences (memory, previous experiences) analyzing that input and guiding how we perceive it. Sensation- senses, (input devices) : sight, sound, smell, How do we go from patterns of light, into perceiving human beings. We need to understand the eye ball, to understand how we perceive our senses. Perception is the end product of sensation to give you an output. Sensation is the detection of simple stimulus properties, such as brightness, colour, sound frequencies, sweetness, Perception is the detection of objects, their location, their movements, their background,
