How Do We Construct the Outside World? • Sensation – detecting physical energy from the environment and encoding it as neural signals • Perception – the process of selecting, organising and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events. • SENSATION PERCEPTION = MEANING
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How Do We Construct the Outside World? Sensation – detecting physical energy from the environment and encoding it as neural signals Perception – the process.
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How Do We Construct the Outside World?
• Sensation – detecting physical energy from the environment and encoding it as neural signals
• Perception – the process of selecting, organising and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events.
• SENSATION PERCEPTION = MEANING
Selective Attention
• At any moment, our awareness focuses (like a flashlight beam in the dark) on a limited aspect of all that we experience.
• Some researchers believe that ever second our five senses take in 11,000,000 bits of information (while we are conscious of 40 of them)
Inattentional Blindness
• Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere
Psychology and Optical Illusions
• Psychologists LOVE visual illusions, because they reflect visions preeminence among our senses
• Fun Fact: When vision competes with one of our other senses vision usually wins (this is called visual capture)
Perceptual Consistency
• Perceiving objects as unchanging (e.g., having consistent lightness, colour, shape, and size) even as illumination and retinal images change
expectations may give us a mental predisposition that greatly influences what we perceive
Movement?
Multistable Perception
Count the Fs
• +++++++++++++++++++++++++++FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THEEXPERIENCE OF YEARS+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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