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PSYC 213 Chapter 3: Chapter 3 from Cognition (4th edition).docx

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McGill University
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Psychology
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PSYC 213
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Jelena Ristic

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Visual agnosia: deficiency in the ability to recognize visual information despite being able to see. Associative agnosia: a form of visual agnosia marked by a difficulty naming objects - have the visual ability to reproduce the objects by drawing them. Time spaces: the experience of seeing units of time in spatial patterns external to themselves. How sensory information is processed, how conscious experiences related to the senses emerge, and how information in environment guides action in the world. There is a dependency of perception on both external environment (stimulus) and internal knowledge of observer. Perception as a function of the environment. Gibson"s theory of ecological optics - perception involves directly absorbing visual info present in environment. "perception is the function of stimulation and stimulation is the function of the environment, so perception is a function of the environment" Perception is mostly accomplished by sensory organs themselves.

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