Perception 1

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  • Created on: 12-04-17 12:23
How does perception work?
Makes sense of the raw sensory input
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What is sensation?
Ability of our sense organs to detect energy
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What is the small compartment that the light passes through the cornea into?
Anterior chamber
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What fluid is the anterior chamber filled with?
Aqueous humor
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What fluid is the major chamber filled with?
Vitreous humor
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What combination is the light focused into the retina by?
Lens/cornea
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What vision are cones used for?
Colour
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What vision are rods used for?
Dim light
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What forms the optic nerve?
Axons
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What is the function of axons?
Carry electrical signals from the eye to the visual cortex
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What pathways is the information transmitted down from the visual cortex?
Ventral and dorsal
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What kind of pathway is the ventral?
What
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What kind of pathway is the dorsal?
Where
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What is perception for recognition?
Recall an object's features and identify it
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What is perception for action?
How the object would be interacted with and used
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What is Gibson's (1979) theory of direct perception based on?
Bottom up processing and perception for action
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What kind of experimentation did Gibson not agree with?
Laboratory experiments
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What is the ambient optic array?
When the light converges to a point in space occupied by the observer
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What are invariants?
Things that remain stable in the environment
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What is the optic flow?
Changes in the light hitting the eye
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What are affordances?
The directly perceivable use of things without relying on prior knowledge
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What is the observer doing if there is flow in the ambient optic array?
Observer is in motion
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What is the observer doing if there is outflow of the optic array from the pole?
Observer is approaching the pole
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What is the observer doing if the pole changes direction?
Observer is changing direction
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In Bruggeman et al. (2007), when was performance better?
When they had access to optic flow information
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