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Psychology 1: How Your Perception (Really) Works

Name: Psychology 1: How Your Perception (Really) Works
Rating: 4.7 (77 reviews)

Learn how your brain constructs your reality. Change the way you look at the world. Perception Psychology for beginners.

Created byAndré Klapper, PhD

Last updated 12/2018

English

What you'll learn

Understand how we perceive and how our brain constructs our reality
Know about the unconscious processes that govern our perception
Get rid of false assumptions and get ready to really understand the human mind
Understand how many visual illusions work
Be able to see the evidence in your everyday life that our brain constructs our reality
Understand the basic structure of the visual system in the brain

Course content

5 sections • 20 lectures • 1h 13m total length

Introduction to perception3:02
People usually think that we perceive with our eyes while in reality most of our perception happens in our brain.

Section overview0:50
An overview of this section.
Parsing: what belongs to what?6:37
Color: a game of light and shadow6:43
Our brain edits the colors that our eyes see. In this lecture, we gonna catch the brain while it is editing.
Depth: enter the third dimension (part 1)5:24
Our eyes can't see depth. But our brain constructs it and edits it into our perception.
Depth: enter the third dimension (part 2)3:50
Our eyes can't see depth. But our brain constructs it and edits it into our perception.
Size: about giants and dwarfs4:42
The size of something in our eyes does not correspond to its actual size. Again, our brain is the solution.
Form: it's never what it looks like4:26
An object produces a different shape in our eyes whenever we change the viewing angle. Our brain does the hard work to correct for that.
Mind-blowing form illusion: the moving head0:25
Conclusion1:50
A summary of the main conclusions of this section.
Test your knowledge of the visual puzzle

Section overview0:35
An overview of this section.
Conscious and unconscious perception8:46
Our perception is not a one-lane street but consists of multiple paths. In this lecture, we look at the early processing stages of our perception.
More about blindsight0:15
The distorted face illusion0:46
From perception to memory4:45
Perception and memory are not two different things, they are connected. In this lecture, we look at the late processing stages of our perception.
The perception-memory loop6:30
Our perception is the product of a dialog between information from our eyes and knowledge from our memories. See how this works in this lecture.
Conclusion1:23
A summary of the main conclusions from this section.
Test your knowledge of the visual system

Requirements

Interest in psychology and perception

Description

What we see is not the same as what our eyes see.

At every moment, our brain is secretly editing what we see without us noticing it.

This course will uncover how your brain is editing your perception and how you can make this visible.

Learn how your perception really works and experience directly how your brain is constantly manipulating what you see.

What you will learn in this course

First, you will see how exactly your brain is fooling you. Specifically, you will learn…

How your brain puzzles the pieces that your eyes see together
Why the colors we see are not the true colors
How our brain makes us think that we see in 3D although we definitely don’t
Why our eyes cannot see how big something is and how our brain hides this
How our brain edits the form of objects in our eyes

Then you will learn what processes are hidden in our brain…

Conscious and unconscious perception
How perception and memory work together to construct your reality

Learn what exactly your brain is doing unconsciously and catch the brain in the act of editing what you see again and again during this course.

When I was a psychology student, perception did not seem very interesting to me.

Now it’s one of my absolute favorite topics.

The reason is simply that there is so much going on in our perception that we are not aware of and it is so easy to make those things visible.

Once you know where to look, you can see it everywhere.

And this makes learning about our perception so interesting and enriching: you will never see the world the same way again.

In my experience, especially the people who think that they are not interested in psychology become interested very quickly once they learn about perception.

So enroll now and find out how your perception really works.

Let me add that I want you to be 100% happy with this course.

If there is anything you are not satisfied with you can get 100% of your money back.

So go ahead and give this course a test drive.

Once you enroll you can start with any lecture and see for yourself what it has in store for you.

And you can ask me any question you have about human perception.

Who this course is for:

Everybody who wants to learn how our perception works
Everybody who is interested in psychology or the human brain
Beginning psychology or neuroscience students
People who want an in-depth course to start learning about the human mind

Psychology 1: How Your Perception (Really) Works

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 3min

The visual puzzle9 lectures • 35min

The visual system7 lectures • 23min

From perception to the mind1 lecture • 5min

Bonus section2 lectures • 7min

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