Perception

Question 1

Perception

Answer 1

Process of selecting; organizing, and interpreting existing info; creation of our own personal reality

Question 2

Top-down processing

Answer 2

Forming perceptions based upon personal experiences (making sense of new data w/ past experiences) different from person to person (I look at alfredo differently than obama does) Vision dominates how we see in what we believe (movie theater; sound from the action/actor? When it’s really in the back)

Question 3

Gestalt

Answer 3

German translation “whole or complete” Founder: Max Wertheimer Perceptual organization:The minds drive to see, or create, meaning from sensory data Focused upon perception from holistic(whole person grow through environment- James) vs structural perspective (wundt & titchener- human behaviors parts) -The mind seeks to make sense of the world

Question 4

Figure and ground

Answer 4

Perceive objects (figures) in relationship to its background (environment) Looks like 2 faces on 1 hand or 2 faces on the ground?

Question 5

Grouping

Answer 5

Organizing stimuli Ex. Proximity Similarly Continuity

Question 6

Proximity

Answer 6

Close objects and figures are grouped 2gether (123, 456, 789,) = 3 group of #s opposed to #s 1-9 instead of seeing all we group them, freshmen year we go with st.als bffs instead of seeing everyone as potential classmates.

Question 6

Similarity

Answer 6

Similar objects and figures are grouped together (we tend to group together like objects) (A row of red squares,and a row of white circles opposed to a vertical row of alternating circles and squares)

Question 7

Continuity

Answer 7

Continuous patterns are perceived instead of discontinuous ones (half circles next to each other or a wavy line intersected by straight line

Question 8

Connectedness

Answer 8

The tendency to link objects together

Question 9

Closure

Answer 9

The tendency to fill in gaps To Create a complete, whole object ( pac man) we see it as a triangle instead of pac man shapes

Question 10

Binocular cues

Answer 10

Cues that require two eyes which allow us to perceived depth and distance

Question 11

Retinal disparity

Answer 11

The difference between images on each retina provides cues to the brain in judging distance and depth

Question 12

Monocular cues

Answer 12

Cues about distance which require one eye

Question 13

Relative size

Answer 13

Comparing objects similar in size, the smaller one is perceived as farther away ( big box, small box )

Question 14

Interposition

Answer 14

An objects which blocks the view of another is perceived as closer (the one blocking the object) (Triangle half way in front of box)

Question 15

Relative height

Answer 15

Objects I the distance the taller objects closer and the smaller one higher as farther ( two triangles one is taller)

Question 16

Linear perspective

Answer 16

Parallel lines appear to converge with distance The more the lines converge, the greater the apparent distance (Mountains with highway; highway converges to make a sense of distance)

Question 17

Size- distance

Answer 17

(Moon at night that comes up through trees; the moon in realshionship to the horizon is large but the high in the sky the smaller it is)