perception Flashcards
Is the ability to see and interpret the visual information around us.
Visual Perception
Is the end product of vision.
Visual Perception
The brain receives information from the _________.
Retina
The main problem with visual perception is that it is simply not a ________.
Translation
Altered by previous experiences.
Chair Theory
Can effect the way you see a situation.
Taxi Theory
It is used in media to make you have an opinion of someone that they want you to have.
Good Guy/Bad Guy Theory
Humans as a species are driven by a desire to _____ _________.
find meaning.
Because as humans, we are all “homo significans”.
meaning makers
Seen as the founder of visual perception studies believed vision was a form of unconscious inference.
Hermann Von Hemholtz
Two well known assumptions are that ______________ and that ____________.
Light comes from above, objects are viewed from above.
Black spots will seem to appear very quickly at the intersections.
Scintillating grid illusion.
The ability to notice detail differences such as shape, size, color, or other dimensional aspects.
Visual Discrimination
The ability to perceive positional aspect differences and recognize objects when they are in a different orientation or format.
Form Constancy
The ability to focus on a selected target and out or ignore irrelevant images.
Figure Ground
The ability to recognize an object, letter, or number without seeing all of the object.
Visual Closure
The ability to see objects in a particular sequential order.
Visual Sequencing
The ability to recognize the positioning of objects in space.
Spatial Relations
The ability to remember forms and sequences of forms and recognize them quickly when seen again.
Visual Memory
The Gestalt Theory originally came about in the
1890s
Gestalt is German for-
Shape/Form/Likeness
The concept of Gestalts Psychology was originally founded by Austrian psychologist called
Christian Freiherr von Ehrenfels
Geltalts Principles can be split into 3 groups
-Figure and Ground
-Similarity, Proximity, Common Fate & Continuity
-Closure, Area & Symmetry
Explains how we put different elements together to make one scene or a whole image.
Figure and Ground
When we have similar objects of size, shape, colour again we form groups.
Similarity
When objects are close to each other we tend to associate them together to form groups.
Proximity
Objects which are facing the same direction or appear to be traveling the same direction are usually grouped together.
Common Fate
Seeing things as a whole is important however seeing in a whole is not necessarily what we are meant to see.
Continuity
Occurs when the eye is compelled to move through one object and continue to another object.
Continuation
If we have a large pattern with missing components, we tend to fill in the missing parts to create the image we actually see. Occurs when an object is incomplete or a space is not completely enclosed.
Closure
This principle shows us that when areas are overlapping, the smallest area is seen as the figure and the larger as the background.
Area
Objects which are symmetrical, we are likely to group them together. This principle also describes looking at an image and perceiving it as a whole figure instead of it’s individual parts.
Symmetry
Is an effective tool to study different aspects of visual perception.
Eye Tracking
Solving a problem with insight.
Productive Thinking
Solving a problem with previous experiences and what is already known.
Reproductive Thinking
