3. Nini, 4. Nono. 5. ?? What is the name of the fifth daughter? Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono. 5. ?? What is the name of the fifth daughter?    

PERCEPTION STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS- thoughts flow/ level of awareness changes divided attention----limits! What things about YOU make you pay attention?

Why Pay Attention? Relevancy- Interest- Need- if you need something, you look! (getting gas/ food)

Motivational Factors PAST EXPERIENCE- personal to your life experiences Expectations – perceptual set/ schema

First Question: You are participating in a race First Question: You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?

Divided attention– has limits Exception: Cocktail Party Phenomenon Your name is the strongest auditory stimulus!!

Attention:Stimulus Factors Contrast- how different is a stimuli from its surroundings Intensity, size, motion can help perceive or misperceive

Feature Analysis Theory Our Capabilities... Feature Analysis Theory we start from the “bottom up” and build perception not with words

What about the stimulus? Top-down processing with familiar ( words not letters) Gestalt (whole) psychology

Coil or circle?

Gestalt Psychology Gestalt- German for “whole” or “totality” if you realize the general nature of something without analyzing details, you have a gestalt.

Gestalt Psychology Figure-ground relationship Do you recognize things as a figure or the background? Figure- what you pay attention to Ground- the rest, falls behind

Take a look at the picture? What do you see? Research has shown that young children cannot identify the intimate couple because they do not have prior memory associated with such a scenario. Children see nine dolphins. This is a test to determine if you already have a corrupted mind.  If it is hard for you to find the dolphins within six seconds, your mind is indeed corrupted.

Perceptual Organization proximity- things that are grouped together are MEANT to go together, right? (relative space) Similarity- if things look alike they belong together

Perceptual Organization Continuity/ simplicity- things should continue in the same smooth direction as it started. Closure- we like to see incomplete figures as whole. It just bothers us.

Perceptual Organization Inclusion- smaller figures tend to get lost in larger ones apparent motion- we see motion from a series of still images MOVIES!!!!!

It ...

… doesn‘t move!

Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena Want to confuse your eyes and brain a bit? Yes? Then you might want to have a look at the following pics ..

If something‘s rotating – go home, you need a break

Concentrate on the cross in the middle, after a while you will notice that this moving purple dot will turn green! Look at the cross a bit longer and you‘ll notice that all dots except the green one will disappear.

CONSTANCIES We realize something is constant as it changes Shape- Size- YOU NEED TO HAVE AN IDEA!!!