Cognitive Psychology - Perception Pt1 - Visual Perception

[@mad-_-observer]

Just an observation, I was shown both the cow and dog 2 years ago in my cognition class and I didn't remember them or see them this time, until you said something. I just thought that was interesting. Probably just highlights how crappy my memory is getting :D

[@thecognitivepsychologist]

haha, it may not point to much about your individual memory ability. For the most part, we talk about a lot of things like this in psychology as overall effects that average out across a large sample of people. So we find an effect when we look at many people, but for one single person, their performance on a particular day (or whether a memory 'clicks' for them) often has more to do with the randomness of that particular day/moment and other factors. So measuring individual memory performance is "noisy", but we can compare groups across different situations to discover these overall patterns and effects.