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Module 3: Visual Perception Flashcards

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the set of processes by which we recognize, organize, and make sense of the sensations we receive from environmental stimuli

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Perception

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HE provided a useful framework for
studying perception.

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James Gibson

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object in the external world (ex. Falling tree)

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Distal object

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pattern produced by the event (sound wave, reflected light,etc.)

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Informational medium

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when informational medium comes in contact with sensory receptors (retina absorbs light waves)

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Proximal Stimulation

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stimulus is created in you that reflects the properties of the external world (image of falling tree)

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Perceptual Object

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4 by James Gibson

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Distal object
Informational medium
Proximal Stimulation
Perceptual Object

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7
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focus on qualities of
stimulation.

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sensation

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occurs as information is used to serve further goals.

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Cognition

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8
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receptor cells adapt to constant
stimulation by ceasing to fire until there is a change in stimulation.
- Through this, we may stop detecting the presence of a stimulus

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Sensory Adaptation

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when your eyes are exposed to a uniform field of stimulation, you will stop perceiving that stimulus after a few minutes and see just a gray field instead

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Ganzfeld Effect

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WHICH layer of the retina contains the photoreceptors (Rods and Cones),

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third

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10
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WHICH layer consists
of three kinds of
interneuron cells. Amacrine
cells and horizontal cells

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second

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WHICH layer is the closest to the front, outward-facing surface of the eye—is the layer of ganglion cells, whose axons constitute the optic nerve.

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First

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12
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short and thick photoreceptors and allow for the perception of color.

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cones

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the path the visual information takes from its entering the human perceptual system through the eyes to its being
completely processed.

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pathway

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2 types of Pathway

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  • Dorsal Pathway
  • Ventral Pathway
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where pathway ; location and motion information ; parietal lobe

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Dorsal Pathway

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what pathway ; color, shape, identity of visual stimuli ; temporal lobe

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Ventral Pathway

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two pathways refer not to what things are and to where they are, but rather, to what they are and to how they function.

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what/how hypothesis

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found in ventral stream; identification of objects

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What Pathway

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dorsal stream ; movements in relation to the objects that have been identified through the what pathway

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How pathway

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19
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describe approaches where perception starts with the stimuli whose appearance you take in through your
eye.

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Bottom-up theories

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These theories then work their way down to considering the sensory data, such as the perceptual stimulus

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Top-down theories,

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Bottom-Up Theories (4)

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  • Direct Perception
  • Template Theories
  • Feature-Matching Theories
  • Recognition-by-components Theory
22
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the information in our sensory receptors, including the sensory context, is all we need to perceive anything.

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Gibson’s Theory of Direct Perception

23
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suggest that we have
stored in our minds myriad sets of templates.

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Template Theories

24
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Creator of Pandemonium Model

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Oliver Selfridge.

24
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metaphorical “demons” with specific duties receive and analyze the features of a stimulus.

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Pandemonium Model

25
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We attempt to match features of a pattern to features stored in memory, rather than to match a whole pattern to a template of prototype.

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Feature-Matching Theories

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constructive perception, the perceiver builds (constructs) a cognitive understanding (perception) of a stimulus.

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Top-Down Theories

26
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has 4 kinds of
demons in Pandemonium Model

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image demons, feature demons, cognitive demons, and decision demons

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Also known as intelligent perception because it states that higher-order thinking plays an important role in perception

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Top-Down Theories

26
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We quickly recognize objects by observing
the edges of them and then decomposing the objects into geons

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Recognition-by-components Theory

27
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  • Individual stores the way the object looks to them
  • Appearance of the object to the viewer
  • Change in the appearance of the object depending on the angle
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Viewer-centered

27
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Information is
characterized by the relation to a well-
known or familiar item

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Landmark-centered

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Storage of a representation of an object regardless of its appearance to the viewer

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Object-centered

28
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we tend to perceive any visual array in a way that most simply organizes the different elements into a stable and coherent form.

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  • Law of Pragranz
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Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception (6)

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  • Figure-ground
  • Proximity
  • Similarity
  • Continuity
  • Closure
  • Symmetry
29
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Specializes in recognizing larger configurations and not equipped in analyzing parts

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Configurational System

29
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System that specializes in recognition of parts of objects and in assembling those parts into distinctive wholes

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Feature Analysis System

29
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Face recognition occurs in the ________ of the right temporal lobe

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FUSIFORM GYRUS

29
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the inability to recognize faces would imply damage of some kind to the configurational system (inability to recognize faces)

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Prosopagnosia

30
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Occurs when our perception of an object remains the same when our proximal sensations of the distal object changes.

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Perceptual Constancies

31
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can be represented in just two dimensions and observed using just one eye.

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Monocular Depth cues

31
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perception that an object maintains the same size despite changes in the size of the proximal stimulus (Müller-Lyer illusion)

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Size Constancy

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perception that an object maintains the same shape despite changes in the shape of the proximal stimulus.

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Shape Constancy

32
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based on receipt of sensory information in three dimensions from both eyes.

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Binocular Depth cues

33
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your two eyes send
increasingly disparate images to your brain as objects approach you

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Binocular Disparity

34
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your two eyes turn inward as objects approach you

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Binocular convergence

35
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damage in the temporal region of the cortex where an individual is unable to pay attention to more than one object at a time

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Simultagnosia

36
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Difficulties Perceiving the “What”

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Agnosia

36
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inability to recognize human faces as a result of damage in the fusiform gyrus

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Prosopagnosia

37
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Difficulties Perceiving the “How”

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Ataxia

37
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no color vision, seeing shades of gray, nonfunctional cones

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Rod Monochromacy / achromacy

38
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extreme form of red green color blindness

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Protanopia

39
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only two mechanisms of color perception work, one malfunctions. It is common to have red-green color blindness

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Dichromacy

40
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trouble seeing greens

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Deuteranopia

41
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blues and greens are confused

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Tritanopia

42
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Concentration on dangerous threats but overlooking the small deviations or uncommon objects

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Scanning Strategy

43
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Failing to see large differences in scenes when change coincides with a brief visual disruption

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Change blindness

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