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1
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what is the three stage process of perception?

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analysis
synthesis
perception

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what is a sensation? (two answers)

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conscious or mental process generated by stimulating a sense organ, sensory nerve, or sensory region in the brain

sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin) react to external stimuli

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sensation happens at what point?

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first

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perception happens at what point?

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last

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STAGE 1 - what is a distal object? and example?

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the item (STIMULUS) doing the stimulating

cow mooing (sound) -> stimulates your audition (sense is stimulated)

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what are the distal objects from hearing, sight, smell, feel, and taste?

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audition
vision
olfaction
touch
gustation

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STAGE 2 - what is the information medium? and examples?

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how the information travels from the distal object

e.g. waves, light (vision), molecules (taste), pressure (touch)

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STAGE 3 - what is proximal stimulation? and examples?

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how the information medium is received

e.g. sound generates movement on the basillar membrane in the ear

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how does sound travel?

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sound -> ear -> transmitted to basillar membrane -> basillar membrane moves -> info transferred to cochlear -> auditory system

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how does vision travel?

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light absorbed by rods/cones in retina

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how does taste travel?

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molecule reception at taste buds

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how does touch travel?

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stimulation of receptor cells

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STAGE 4 - what is the perceptual object? and example?

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recognising the object as the object

e.g. recognising the sound as a cow

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what does ‘Gestalt’ mean?

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‘form’ or ‘shape’

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who created the gestalt approach?

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kofka, kohler, wertheimer

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what is gestalt theory?

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tries to understand how the human brain perceives experiences

it suggests that structures, perceived as a whole, have specific properties that are different from the sum of their individual parts

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what does the gestalt theory principles provide?

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explain how we make sense of the world

18
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what is the law of pragnanz?

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see a set of ambiguous or complex objects and tries to make them as simple as possible

19
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what is figure-ground segregation?

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ability to separate the figure in a picture from the background

20
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what are the gestalt laws?

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proximity - when objects are played together, the eye perceives them as a group

similarity - when objects look similar to one another, the eye perceives them as a group or pattern

continuance - the eye is compelled to move from one object through another

closure - when an object is incomplete or not completely enclosed

figure & ground - when the eye differentiates an object from its surrounding area

common region - things in the same closed region (circle/shape) tend to be perceived as belonging to the same group

21
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what are the problems with the gestalt theory?

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  • there is no actual explanation, just description
  • principles do not explain why perception happens
  • does not offer any clues as to WHERE in the brain it is happening
22
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what is bottom up processing? (data driven) and example?

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begin with basic stimuli and work up.

e.g. Gestalt

23
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what did gibson say about biological tuning?

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we are biologically tuned to respond to certain shapes

24
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what are template theories (Selfridge and Neisser 1960)?

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perceive shapes in the world by matching them to templates that we have in our head

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what are the limitations of template theories? (two answers)

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e.g. the letter ‘a’ can be wrote so many different ways and in many different fonts

where would we fit all of the templates

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what is rosch’s prototype theory?

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stores the closest version of an object and compares to it

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what are feature/pandemonium theories? and example?

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store individual small parts that we can make up parts rather

e.g. letter A is made up of three lines

28
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what is navon’s local features?

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local processing is processing information in a smaller, more detailed way

29
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what is navon’s global features?

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global processing is processing information in a bigger whole picture way

30
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what is an example of the differences of local and global features?

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the letter ‘H’ made up of smaller ‘x’’s

Global - the letter H
local - the smaller x’s

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what did Biedermen (1987) discovered from his cognition theory?

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recognise the world through ‘viewpoint invariant geons’:
= we recognise the shape no matter what angle it is
= components are quickly identified

32
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what is top down processing?

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engage with the world around us through experience
and expectations

33
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What is Marr’s conceptual theory?

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  • Hybrid of top-down & bottom-up
  • raw data in the retina is categorised into features
  • descriptive but goes off experience too

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