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| the selection, organization, and interpretation of sensory input |
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1. sensory
2. perceptual
3. classification |
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| Distal vs. proximal stimuli |
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| object in the environment vs the image in the eye |
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1. structuralism
2. gestaltism
3. ecological optics |
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1. region segregation
2. figure-ground
3. closure
4. grouping |
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1. binocular cues
2. motion cues
3. pictorial cues |
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| how we think, organize, etc about what we are looking at |
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| an object belongs to a certain category |
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| oldest theory/ when we are babies we have a blank mind and it is through experience with ojects over and over that we are able to percieve them and store them in our knowledge |
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| reaction against structuralism/ there is something on our mental process that we want to make things whole and organized and so **the whole is greater than the sum of the parts** |
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| about the environmental stimulus, the properties of the stimulus should be studied and not the process |
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| we can see what is cut out of a region |
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| FedEx example of the arrow, faces vs vase….what is the fore ground and what is the background |
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| a series of lines can be perceived as a circle |
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| (similarity, proximity) – group circles together and group lines together/ if things are near each other we group them together |
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1. disparity
2. convergence |
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| there is a difference between our visual field |
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| the eyes converge as objects get closer |
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| the closer the object, the faster we perceive its speed |
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1. size
2. shape
3. constancy |
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1. bottom up and top bottom processes
2. critical features theory and prototype theory
3. contexts and expectations
4. social and personal influences
5. field dependent vs independent |
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| In form perception, progression from individual elements to the whole |
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| In form perception, a progression from the whole to the elements |
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| when we look at an object, we look at if it has the critical features that allows us to perceive the object as a certain object/matching process |
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| we have stored in our minds what a typical object should look like, then we do a quick comparison/rapid comparison |
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| it doesn’t matter what the order of the letters are in. |
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| When we expect a word or phrase, it doesn’t matter what the order of the letters are in. |
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| the outside worlds influence in the way we perceive things |
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| a personal schema can influence the way in which he/she perceives an object |
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| subjects deprived of food saw the food related words much quicker…primes us to perceive things that we are deprived of |
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| either field dependent or field independent |
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| influenced by their surroundings/extroverted, social, medical majors |
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| influenced by internal/ independent thinking, natural sciences majors |
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