Lecture 2-Perception And Disorders Of Perception

Question 1

What is perception

Answer 1

How we make sense of the outside world

Question 2

What is the dorsal stream

Answer 2

The where stream-prepares for action, has a short memory to know where things were and predict where they will go

Question 3

What is the ventral stream

Answer 3

The what stream-knowledge based , first example of top-down processing, conscious

Question 4

What is schema/template theory

Answer 4

Comparing incoming information to pre existing knowledge

Question 5

What are the five Gestalt laws of perceptual organization

Answer 5

Law of proximity
Law of similarity
Law of good continuation
Law of completion 
Law of common fate

Question 6

What is the law of proximity

Answer 6

Objects near each other are processed as a unit

Question 7

What is the law of similarity

Answer 7

Similar objects are grouped together

Question 8

What is the law of good continuation

Answer 8

Objects in a line or curve are grouped together; overlapping objects are seen as an object

Question 9

What is the law of closure

Answer 9

We complete a figure with gaps

Question 10

What is the law of common fate

Answer 10

Objects that move in the same direction are seen as a unit