• Types of perceptions ○ Vision (sight) ○ Audition (hearing) ○ Olfaction (smell) ○ Gustation (taste) ○ Somatosensation (touch) ○ Proprioception ○ Thermosensation ○ Nociception • Vision is our most dominantsense ○ Also dominates our brain ○ We understand vision the best • Sensation vs perception ○ 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 ○ Linear perspective ○ Motion • Magnification --> certain parts of eyes have ○ Refrigerator light illusion • Attention is linked with awareness ○ "Change blindness" --> failure to become aware of even big changes when we are not paying attention to it Theory of mind • Three mountains task ○ 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  Kids can't think of other minds • False believe task • Babies are attached to pro-social behavior • Babies know good from bad • Babies prefer good