UNIT 4

Question 1

Sensation and perception

Answer 1

Sensation and perception are about how we notice and understand things around us using our senses.

-The process of sensation and perception take place within one unified information-processing system

Question 2

Sensation

Answer 2

Sensation how when we notice things happening inside and outside our bodies using our senses.

-Its a physiological process

Question 3

Stimuli

Answer 3

Physical inputs or energy we receive through our five senses

Question 4

Perception

Answer 4

a psychological process where our brain helps us choose, analyse, organize, and understand the things we sense.

Question 5

Visual Perception

Answer 5

How our mind makes sense of what we see based on our unique background and experiences

Question 6

Perceptual laws and factors which determine perceptual organisation

Answer 6

These are rules that help our brain organize what we see:

-Form perception
-Depth and spatial perception
-Perceptual constancy
-Perception of movement
-Visual or perceptual illusions

Question 7

Form Perception

Answer 7

This is how our brain makes sense of what we see by organizing visual elements into meaningful patterns or groups.

Question 8

Gestalt principle of wholeness

Answer 8

Asserts that ‘The whole is more than the sum of the parts’

Question 9

Psychological factors in visual perception

Answer 9

-Hues: Colour names and related to wavelengths

-Saturation: Intensity of light and purity of complexity of lightwaves

-Brightness: The amount of light reflected on an object

Question 10

Gestalt laws of visual perception

Answer 10

-Law of Similarity

-Law of Proximity

-Law of Closure

-Law of Prägnanz (Simplicity)

-Law of Common Fate

-Law of symmetry

-Law of continuity

Question 11

Law of Similarity

Answer 11

We perceive similar items as belonging together.

Question 12

Law of Proximity:

Answer 12

Objects that are close to each other are perceived as a group

Question 13

Law of Continuity:

Answer 13

We prefer continuous, smooth lines and patterns. Our brain follows the simplest path when connecting points

Question 14

Law of Closure

Answer 14

Viewers tend to fill in gaps to see complete shapes even if part of an object is missing

Question 15

Law of Prägnanz (Simplicity)

Answer 15

Views tend to perceive complex elements in the simplest form possible.

Question 16

Law of symmetry

Answer 16

views tend to perceive elements that have equal proportions as a balanced whole

When things are evenly matched on both sides, our brain groups them together as a whole.

Question 17

Law of common fate

Answer 17

Viewers see elements that move in the same direction, as part of the same group

Question 18

We interpret things/Objects according to:

Answer 18

-Depth dimensions
-Distance
-Height
-Width

Question 19

Monocular cues

Answer 19

Monocular cues help us judge depth and distance using just one eye

-Size cues

-Linear perspective

-Texture gradient

-Atmospheric perspective

-Height cues

-Motion parallax

-Interposition/ overlap

Question 20

Binocular cues

Answer 20

Binocular cues for depth perception come from using both eyes together.

-Convergence

-Retinal disparity

Question 21

The principle of perceptual organisation

Answer 21

explains how our brain groups visual elements to form complete, meaningful pictures. Instead of seeing random parts, we see organized wholes.