• Types of perceptions
â—‹ Vision (sight)
â—‹ Audition (hearing)
â—‹ Olfaction (smell)
â—‹ Gustation (taste)
â—‹ Somatosensation (touch)
â—‹ Proprioception
â—‹ Thermosensation
â—‹ Nociception
• Vision is our most dominantsense
â—‹ Also dominates our brain
â—‹ We understand vision the best
• Sensation vs perception
â—‹ Sensation --> stimulation of our sense organs by the world
• Perception --> organizing sensory stimulation into a coherent picture of the world
• Unconscious inference
• Discounting the illuminant --> what is the quality of light in room and subtracting from light hitting
your eye
• 3D world
• Retina is 2D
• Cues to size and distance
â—‹ Linear perspective
â—‹ Motion
• Magnification --> certain parts of eyes have
â—‹ Refrigerator light illusion
• Attention is linked with awareness
â—‹ "Change blindness" --> failure to become aware of even big changes when we are not
paying attention to it
Theory of mind
• Three mountains task
â—‹ Child couldn't tell what was on the side for the adult
• Mean monkey task
○ Even when kid should be motivated to exploit, they don’t do it
ï‚§ Kids can't think of other minds
• False believe task
• Babies are attached to pro-social behavior
• Babies know good from bad
• Babies prefer goodÂ