UniNotes is slowly filling up with delicious, delicious information. Do you like to learn things? I do. I like other people learning things too. For your learning convenience, then, I present to you the first four chapters of my psychology and linguistics (actually linguistics chapter 4 isn’t up yet because we have an assignment due soon, don’t want to give out my answers) textbooks! On top of that, a month of lectures on the subjects covered in the textbooks. For ALDS, we just cover interesting things, so it’s more varied.
Chapter 4 in my psych textbook is Sensation and Perception, which you would see if you looked at the PSYC 1001 folder. It covers all of the senses, and lightly covers how we perceive these senses. It doesn’t delve hardcore into the subjectivity of experience, and the stuff that was there didn’t make it into my notes. Likewise with the proofs of subjectivity in the second chapter on Research Methods. But there’s interesting examples, such as giving the same replay of a football game to fans of the different teams. Each group of fans saw twice as many penalties made by the OTHER team. So if Team A thought it had 4 penalties and the other team had 10, Team B thought they had 5 penalties and the other team had 8. The recordings were the same, and yet they were watching different games.
Another example was a video created by laying the video of one basketball game over another. One had been edited to make the players black silhouettes, the other edited to make them white silhouettes. Or something like that. At any rate, the subjects were asked to try to follow both games at the same time.
When a woman with an umbrella walked onto the court, only half of the subjects noticed. When a man in a gorilla costume jumped in, only ¼ “saw” it.
The world is a beautiful place :’)
edit for bonus content: I’m reading Chapter 5 of my psychology textbook right now, and it’s about Consciousness, which basically means sleep, hypnosis, drugs, and a few other things. Anyway, awesome quote:
Americans spend so much time and energy chasing the American Dream, that they don’t have much time left for actual dreaming.
-William Dement