Perception

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What is sensation?
Information that we receive through our senses
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What is perception?
The organisation and interpretation of sensory information
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Name three famous illusions
The Ponzo illusion, The Muller-Lyer illusion and Rubin's Vase
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What is depth percetion?
How near or far away something is
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What are binocular depth cues?
Cues that are only detected with two eyes
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What is convergence?
When the brain detects the differences in how the muscles are working and uses it as a cue to distance.
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What is retinal disparity?
The difference in what the two eyes see
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Name all 4 monocular depth cues
Linear perspective, occlusion, relative size and height in plane
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What are illusions?
Unconscious mistakes of perception
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Name 3 more visual illusions
The Ames Room, the Kanizsa triangle and the Necker Cube
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What is optic flow?
Patterns detected by the brain to let us know we're moving
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What was Gibson's direct theory of perception?
The influence of nature (believed perceptual abilities are innate), Sufficient information for direct perception, motion parallax and optic flow patterns
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What was Gibson's constructivist theory?
Inference, perception in a construction, visual cues and past experience (the role of nurture)
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What are the four factors which affect perception?
Culture, emotion, expectation* and motivation*
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Who conducted a study about expectation?
Bruner and Minturn
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Who conducted a study about motivation?
Gilchrist and Nesberg
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How near or far away something is

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