GCSE Applications in Psychology- Perception

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What is Sensation?

Collecting data through the senses

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What is Perception?

The process of interpreting data once it has been sensed

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What are Illusions?

When there is a mismatch between our senses and our perception

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What is top-down processing?

When the brain is sorting out objects, prior knowledge, memories, ect.

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What is bottom-up processing?

When perception is immediate and data-driven

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'the sides of a road converge at a point in the distance' is?

Linear perspective

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'paving gets smaller as it goes into the distance' is?

Texture gradient

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'something is above the horizontal half way line it's further away' is?

Height in plane

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'if something is blocking an image it is seen as closer' is?

Superimposition

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'when an object is seen as further away it is smaller' is?

Relative size

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What are Fictions?

Seeing something that is not there

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What are Ambiguous Figures?

An image that can be seen in more than one way

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GCSE Applications in Psychology- Perception