Perception Flashcards
What is perception?
> Organisation & interpretation
>Active process (use memory/ thoughts0
List the properties of visual perception
Adaptation effects
Depth Perception
Gestalt/ whole percept
What are the 2 directions of processing?
Bottom-up processes
Top-down processes
Describe bottom up process
> Sensory driven
>Organise incoming info
Describe top-down processes
> driven by knowledge, experience, expectations
>determine perception in ambiguous setting
Name 1 adaptation effect
> Negative after-image
What are 2 depth Perception effects?
> Binocular disparity
>Monocular clues> based of experience
What is gestalt/ whole percept
> Organisational tendencies of a system
>Seeking meaningful groups
Cause of illusion
> Sensory info clashes with expectations
>Bottom up & top down
List 4 features of gestalt/ whole percept
> Visual grouping
Figure-ground organisation
perceptual constancies
perceptual illusions
What is the effect of sensory processes having a limit?
> awareness failure
>protective filtering
Describe the relationship between perception and attention
selective attention> screening info
>Selective listening
>inattentional blindness
What is meant by assumptive world?
> Our own internal construction model of the perceived world
What was the SB and Mike May case
> Recovery from blindness
Okay with past touch experiences
Difficulty: 3D challenges & facial expressions
What was the Rosenham case in 1973
>Being sane in insane places >Context >8 pseudo patients >Fake schizophrenia >Hospitalised 7-52 days >Discharged >Took along time to discharge because due to their environment perceived to be ill
