PSY100H1 Final: exam study
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Fundamental insight #1 reality is a story, told to us by our brains: our experience do not reflect reality itself", but rather a construction, or representation of reality. our sensory-perceptual system are limited due to: the sensitivity of our sensory mechanisms/ our attentional capacity. we then use perception (we are not directly interacting with reality but rather we are creating a fiction about reality) it is a process of pattern-matching (uses pre- existing patterns to decode incoming sensory signals) Fundamental insight # 2 we have limited capacity to process information: we rely upon heuristics or rules of thumb, when engaging in reasoning and decision making. relying on our beliefs makes us biased (often biases a based on our mo tivation which alters the info we pay attention to) we shouldn"t get too attached to our judgement & perceptions and should remember to validate them by comparing them to others".
