topic 2- visual reception

Question 1

what are the biological influences on visual perception?

Answer 1

• Biological aging
• inherited visual disorders
• visual disorders or disorders that aren’t shown at birth
• Colour blindness

Question 2

What are psychological influences on visual reception?

Answer 2

perceptual set, visual perception principles and past experiences
-context, motivation,emotion

Question 3

Perceptual set meaning

Answer 3

-To interpret visual stimuli in a particular way, according to preconceptions

Question 4

depth cues meaning

Answer 4

-Depth perception is the visual ability to perceive the world in three dimensions and the distance of an object.

Question 5

Whats the impact of social influences on visual perception

Answer 5

• Cultural norms
• some form of learning is required to recognise pictures
• Depth cues influence both our visual systems and societal norms/expectations

Question 6

Whats the ponzo illusion?

Answer 6

-An illusion where people percieve two lines of the same length as different

Question 7

The Muller-Lyer illusion

Answer 7

• Two lines with equal lengths, one end of the line has regular arrow heads while the other has inverted arrow heads.
• the line with inverted arrow lines is percieved as bigger when they are the same height

Question 8

Impossible figures

Answer 8

-A type of optical illusion involving a two dimentional figure which people interpret as dimentional

Question 9

Ambiguous figures

Answer 9

-A optical illusion of an image that can be percieved differently by different people