perception

Question 1

Is the ability to see and interpret the visual information around us.

Answer 1

Visual Perception

Question 2

Is the end product of vision.

Answer 2

Visual Perception

Question 3

The brain receives information from the _________.

Answer 3

Retina

Question 4

The main problem with visual perception is that it is simply not a ________.

Answer 4

Translation

Question 5

Altered by previous experiences.

Answer 5

Chair Theory

Question 6

Can effect the way you see a situation.

Answer 6

Taxi Theory

Question 7

It is used in media to make you have an opinion of someone that they want you to have.

Answer 7

Good Guy/Bad Guy Theory

Question 8

Humans as a species are driven by a desire to _____ _________.

Answer 8

find meaning.

Question 9

Because as humans, we are all “homo significans”.

Answer 9

meaning makers

Question 10

Seen as the founder of visual perception studies believed vision was a form of unconscious inference.

Answer 10

Hermann Von Hemholtz

Question 11

Two well known assumptions are that ______________ and that ____________.

Answer 11

Light comes from above, objects are viewed from above.

Question 12

Black spots will seem to appear very quickly at the intersections.

Answer 12

Scintillating grid illusion.

Question 13

The ability to notice detail differences such as shape, size, color, or other dimensional aspects.

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Visual Discrimination

Question 14

The ability to perceive positional aspect differences and recognize objects when they are in a different orientation or format.

Answer 14

Form Constancy

Question 15

The ability to focus on a selected target and out or ignore irrelevant images.

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Figure Ground

Question 16

The ability to recognize an object, letter, or number without seeing all of the object.

Answer 16

Visual Closure

Question 17

The ability to see objects in a particular sequential order.

Answer 17

Visual Sequencing

Question 18

The ability to recognize the positioning of objects in space.

Answer 18

Spatial Relations

Question 19

The ability to remember forms and sequences of forms and recognize them quickly when seen again.

Answer 19

Visual Memory

Question 20

The Gestalt Theory originally came about in the

Answer 20

1890s

Question 21

Gestalt is German for-

Answer 21

Shape/Form/Likeness

Question 22

The concept of Gestalts Psychology was originally founded by Austrian psychologist called

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Christian Freiherr von Ehrenfels

Question 23

Geltalts Principles can be split into 3 groups

Answer 23

-Figure and Ground
-Similarity, Proximity, Common Fate & Continuity
-Closure, Area & Symmetry

Question 24

Explains how we put different elements together to make one scene or a whole image.

Answer 24

Figure and Ground

Question 25

When we have similar objects of size, shape, colour again we form groups.

Answer 25

Similarity

Question 26

When objects are close to each other we tend to associate them together to form groups.

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Proximity

Question 27

Objects which are facing the same direction or appear to be traveling the same direction are usually grouped together.

Answer 27

Common Fate

Question 28

Seeing things as a whole is important however seeing in a whole is not necessarily what we are meant to see.

Answer 28

Continuity

Question 29

Occurs when the eye is compelled to move through one object and continue to another object.

Answer 29

Continuation

Question 30

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.

Answer 30

Closure

Question 31

This principle shows us that when areas are overlapping, the smallest area is seen as the figure and the larger as the background.

Answer 31

Area

Question 32

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.

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Symmetry

Question 33

Is an effective tool to study different aspects of visual perception.

Answer 33

Eye Tracking

Question 34

Solving a problem with insight.

Answer 34

Productive Thinking

Question 35

Solving a problem with previous experiences and what is already known.

Answer 35

Reproductive Thinking