PSYC 1010- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 90 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Prolonged exposure to a garbage bin that has started to smell will make you feel as if the stench is fading when in reality ones sensitivity to the stench would have simply decreased. When the pupil dilates, it lets more light into the eye. Reading a word as a whole and not individual letters: subjective contours: the perception of contours where none actually exist, ex. Looking at the whole picture: gestalt principles: gestalt psychologists repeatedly demonstrated that the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts, phi phenomenon: the illusion of movement created by presenting visual stimuli in rapid succession, ex. A movie or tv show is several still pictures however they do not appear that way when being watched. Figure and ground - the figure is the thing being looked at, and the ground is the background against which it stands. Similarity: people also tend to group stimuli that are smaller.