1. Visual Organization and Interpretation Module 19

2. Perceptual Process Perception – Involves interpreting and assigning meaning to the sensations that have been received – Very subjective – Based on personal assumptions and interpretations – Schemas – mental frameworks that organize past experiences in order to make faster perceptions

3. Perceptual Set Predisposition to interpret an event or stimulus in particular way based on beliefs, emotions, or previous experiences

4. Effect of Culture Muller-Lyer Illusion

5. Effect of Culture Muller-Lyer Illusion

6. Gestalt Principles Gestalt – an organized whole Group of German psychologists Emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of info into a meaningful whole

7. Necker Cube

10. Gestalt Principles Figure-Ground Proximity Similarity Continuity Connectedness Closure video

11. Depth Perception Awareness of our 3-D world and the distance between us and other objects Eleanor Gibson – Created the visual cliff – Findings depth perception might be innate – Video on visual cliff Video on visual cliff

13. Binocular vs. Monocular Binocular Cues – Depth cues that depends on the use of two eyes – Retinal disparity Compares images from the 2 retinas – brain computes distance – Convergence Inward turning of your eyes that occurs when you look at object close to you Look at your nose

14. Binocular vs. Monocular Monocular Cues – Depth cues that use only one eye – See cheat sheet for details

16. Perceptual Adaptation In vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field.

17. Phi Phenomenon An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on or off in quick succession

18. Perceptual Constancy – Perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change Color constancy – Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelengths reflected by the object