PSY270H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mental Chronometry, Donald O. Hebb, Wilhelm Wundt
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Cognitive psychology study of the mind; understanding human behaviour. Folk psychology e(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455)da(cid:455) ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455) (cid:862)do(cid:374)(cid:859)t shop o(cid:374) a(cid:374) e(cid:373)pt(cid:455) sto(cid:373)a(cid:272)h(cid:863) (cid:396)ooted i(cid:374) (cid:272)og(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455) The dress: assume taken outside, see white and gold, assume taken inside, see blue and black. Two faces vs. one face upside-down: depends on top-down processing. People see faces in everything because faces are meaningful, show emotion, social animals. Visual imagery imagining a scene, with yourself navigating it, will typically be bound by physical rules (e. g. will walk through house to count windows, usually at a pace that possible for you rather than flying/teleporting) Problem solving 3x3 dots, draw 4 straight lines that passes through them all; people create boundaries for themselves, will not draw outside the area within the dots, but you have to to solve this problem! Plato: nativist people born with innate knowledge/skills, reality is a representation; create representation of the world, reality is an individual experience reality is a perception of the mind.
