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PSYCHOLOGY

PSYCHOLOGY. Perceptual Interpretation. Nature vs. Nurture. Kant - innate/nature (born with- inherited) Locke - learn by experience/nurture (blank slate) Nurture sculpts what nature has endowed. Restored vision studies.

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PSYCHOLOGY

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  1. PSYCHOLOGY Perceptual Interpretation

  2. Nature vs. Nurture • Kant - innate/nature (born with- inherited) • Locke - learn by experience/nurture (blank slate) Nurture sculpts what nature has endowed

  3. Restored vision studies *Patients with cataracts from birth & later removed could identify figure from ground & sense color - so this suggests some perceptual abilities are innate *But could NOT recognize sight objects or shapes -suggests critical period for sensory perceptual development

  4. Sensory Restriction:Blakemore & Cooper, 1970 • Kittens raised with exposure to horizontal lines later had difficulty perceiving vertical bars • Selective blindness to the lines they were not exposed to

  5. Perceptual Interpretation Perceptual Adaptation (vision) ability to adjust to an artificially displaced visual field • prism glasses/distortion goggles demo

  6. How do our beliefs, expectations, etc. shape interpretation? Perceptual Set a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another • greatly impacts what we perceive

  7. Unscramble the words • LULB EXAMPLE BULL • CALEM • NUKKS • SEUMO • BAZER • EAP

  8. Unscramble the words • NORC Example CORN • NOONI • MATOOT • PREPPE • TEBE • EAP

  9. Perceptual Set • What you see in the center is influenced by perceptual set

  10. PERCEPTUAL SET • Ex. Loch Ness monster • Ex. Cheer up vs. gear up in the pilot • Ex. Backmasking when told what to listen for • Ex. Picture of costume ball vs. Trained seal • Old lady vs. young lady

  11. Perception & Schemas Schema - formed concepts created from experience • Schemas help determine our perceptual set • Ex. What do you expect to see in an office based on prior experience with offices? • What do you expect to see, hear, etc. • Ex. anagrams

  12. Perceptual Set: Schemas Flying Saucers or Clouds?

  13. Context Effects Context Effects: • Talking about fruit… likely to hear peel instead of wheel; cults & sects or cults & sex • Context creates expectation that influences our perception or interpretation • Ex. Rabbits in box picture • Ex. Students don’t recognize teachers at store • Ex. Handout 15-1 #3

  14. What do they teach us? Perceptual sets, schemas, & context effect show how experience helps us construct perception Culture Emotion Sterotypes

  15. Perception and the Human Factor Human Factors Psychology • explores how people and machines interact • explores how machine and physical environments can be adapted to human behaviors

  16. 10 8 6 4 2 0 Altitude (thousands of feet) Pilot’s perceived descent path Altitude looks this much higher Actual descent path 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 Distance from runway (miles) Perceptual Set: Human Factors

  17. Extrasensory Perception? Extrasensory Perception (ESP) • controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input 1. Telepathy - mind to mind comm. 2. Clairvoyance - perceiving remote events 3. Precognition - perceiving future events

  18. Terms Parapsychology • the study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP & Psychokinesis Psychokinesis - mind over matter • Scientific research is not strong, skepticism exists

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