PSYC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Retinal Ganglion Cell, Occipital Lobe, Detection Theory
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Edward titchener: tried using introspection to measure perceptual experiences. Gustav fechner developed a new approach to measure psychophysics (objective): methods that measure the strength of a stimulus and the observer"s sensitivity to that stimulus. But if you picked up a 2kg package, and then 2. 02kg package, you would prob detect no di at all. 4. 2 vision i: how the eyes and the brain convert light. 20/20 refers to a measurement associated with a. Eld ends up in the left hemisphere, and info from the left visual eld ends up in the right hemisphere. Where pathway/ how pathway: because it allows us to perceive spatial relations. Ashing lights in the road sign are perceived as a moving arrowhead. 4. 3. 3 perceiving depth and size how does a brain process a at, 2d retinal image. The ames room uneven oo makes the rooms height in the far bak corner shorter than the other misleading windows as well.