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Perception (with Sensation 6-8% of AP Exam)

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Perception. (with Sensation 6-8% of AP Exam). Perception. “Top-down” processing: a progression from the whole to the elements The process of selecting, organizing and interpreting our sensations. In many situations your knowledge or expectations (schemas) will influence perception. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Perception(with Sensation 6-8% of AP Exam)

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Perception• “Top-down” processing:

a progression from the whole to the elements

• The process of selecting, organizing and interpreting our sensations.

• In many situations your knowledge or expectations (schemas) will influence perception.

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Do you see the arrow?

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Attention and BehaviorSelective Attention and Selective Inattention

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Selective Attention• Selective Attention – focusing conscious

awareness on a particular stimulus to the exclusion of others.• Ex. Blocking out the talking of the student next to you so that you can complete your assignment.• Ex. Being so “caught up” in the TV show you are watching that you didn’t notice someone enter the room.• Ex. Busy texting while driving that you fail to notice the semi-truck headed right for your windshield.

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Selective Attention

• Cocktail Party phenomenon – the ability to attend to only one voice among many

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Selective Attention• Pop-out phenomenon –

when stimuli are so powerful or distinct that we automatically notice the change

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Selective Inattention

• Inattentional blindness – failing to see visible object when our attention is directed elsewhere

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Selective Inattention

• Change blindness – failing to notice changes in the environment

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Looking at the Whole Picture

Gestalt Principles

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Perceptual Organization• Gestalt psychologists

emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.

• How we organize our sensations into perceptions.

• Figure-ground: perceiving an object (called the figure) as distinct from its surroundings (called the ground)

Faces or Vase?

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Gestalt PrinciplesProximity – We group nearby figures together.

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Gestalt Principles• Similarity – We group together figures that are

similar to each other.

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Gestalt Principles• Continuity – We perceive smooth, continuous

patterns rather than discontinuous ones.

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Gestalt Principles• Connectedness – Because they are uniform and

linked we perceive the two dots and the line between them as a single unit.

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Gestalt Principles• Closure – We fill in gaps to create a complete,

whole object.

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Perceiving Depth and Distance

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Depth Perception• Depth perception – the

ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two-dimensional

• Allows us to judge distance.

• Visual cliff – (at right) laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals

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Binocular Cues• Binocular cues – Depth cues that depend on the

use of two eyes.

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Depth Perception – Binocular Cues

• Retinal disparity – refers to the fact that objects within 25 feet project images to slightly different locations on the right and left retinas, so the right and left eyes see slightly different views of the object• Finger Sausage

demonstration

• Convergence – the extent to which the eyes converge inward when looking at an object

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Monocular Cues• Monocular Cues – depth cues available to either

eye alone

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Depth Perception – Monocular Cues

• Relative Size – if we assume that two objects are similar in size, we perceive the one that casts the smaller retinal image as farther away

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Depth Perception – Monocular Cues• Interposition – if one object partially blocks our

view of another, we perceive it as closer.

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Depth Perception – Monocular Cues• Relative clarity – because light from distant

objects passes through more atmosphere, we perceive hazy objects as further away than sharp, clear objects.

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Depth Perception – Monocular Cues• Texture gradient – a gradual change from a

coarse, distinct texture to a fine, indistinct texture signals increasing distance

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Depth Perception – Monocular Cues

• Relative height – we perceive objects higher in our field of vision as farther away; lower in the field as closer

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Depth Perception – Monocular Cues• Relative motion (motion parallax)– as we move, objects

that are actually stable may appear to move• Objects closer than the fixation point appear to move backward.• Objects beyond the fixation point appear to move with you.

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Depth Perception – Monocular Cues• Linear perspective – parallel lines appear to

converge with distance

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Depth Perception – Monocular Cues

• Light and shadow – nearby objects reflect more light to our eyes; given two identical objects, the dimmer ones seems farther away

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Motion Perception• We tend to perceive

that shrinking objects are retreating and enlarging objects are approaching.• We tend to perceive

that larger objects more move slowly than smaller objects.

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Motion Perception• Stroboscopic movement – rapid movement in a

rapid series of slightly varying images (i.e. motion pictures)

• Phi phenomenon – an illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession

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How do experience and culture influence perception?

The Influence of Experience and Culture

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Perceptual Set• Our experiences, assumptions and expectations

may give us a perceptual set, or mental predisposition, that greatly influences what we see.

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Loch Ness Monster or log floating in the water?

Clouds or UFOs?

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Context Effects• Similar stimuli can evoke different perceptions in

different contexts.• These different perceptions are called context

effects.

Is the box in the far left frame lying on the floor or hanging from the ceiling? What about the one of the far right?In each case, the context defined by the inquisitive rabbits guides our perception.

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Cultural Perceptions: What’s for Dinner?

A study found that subjects from a rural African tribe who had little exposure to pictures and photos, frequently misinterpreted the depth cues in the picture.

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The Muller-Lyer Illusion

• Both parallel lines are equal lengths.

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The Muller-Lyer Illusion

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Cultural Influences in Susceptibility• Studies have discovered that people in non-

Western cultures are less susceptible to the Muller-Lyer Illusion than Western samples.

• The most plausible explanation is that in the West we live in a “carpentered world” dominated by straight lines, right angles and rectangular rooms.

• Thus our experience in the Western world readily prepares us to view the Muller-Lyer Illusion as inside and outside corners of buildings.

• In contrast, people in some non-Western cultures who live in less “carpentered worlds” are less prone to see the Muller-Lyer as building corners.

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The Role of Top-Down Processing

Vulnerability to Illusions

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Perceptual Constancy

Shape Constancy Size Constancy

Perceptual constancy – perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent color, lightness, shape and size) even as illumination and retinal images change

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Light Constancy

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Size-Distance Relationship

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Miscellaneous Illusions

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Moon Illusion• Naturally occurring optical illusion in which the moon appears

larger on the horizon than it does higher up in the sky.

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Ames Room Illusion

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Parapsychology

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Parapsychology• Parapsychology: the study of paranormal

phenomena• Extrasensory Perception (ESP): claim that

perception can occur apart from sensory input. Includes:

• 1. telepathy: communication by perceiving another’s thoughts

• 2. clairvoyance: perceiving remote events (those happening elsewhere)

• 3. precognition: perceiving future events before they happen

• Closely linked to ESP is telekinesis: the ability to move objects with the mind.

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