1. PERCEPTION!

2. Our Essential Questions
How does perception influence our perspectives?
What is the Gestalt perspective?
What are the various types of perceptions we have?

3. Perception
The process of integrating, organizing, and interpreting sensation
Sensation is the stimulation, perception is the interpretation

4. What do you think this mental integration, organization and interpretation is influenced by?

5. Perceptions influenced by:
----Motivation
----Values
----Expectations
----Experience
----Culture
----Cognitive Style
----Personality

6. Perceptual Constancy
We perceive objects as unchanging despite changes in retinal image
color/ brightness
shape
size

7. The door changes shape, but you know that it doesn’t really change

8. Visual capture
tendency for vision to dominate the other senses

9. Gestalt Psychology “unified whole” Whole>sum of its parts
If we break experiences into their basic parts, something important is lost

10. What do you see here?

11. What do you see here?

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14. Dyslexia: inability to revisualize the gestalt of the word
Is this a problem with sensation or perception?

15. Can you remember?

17. How’d you do?

18. Grouping tendency to organize stimuli into groups
Aka “chunking”
Patterns, shapes, forms
How many #s can we remember?

19. So how do we group?
Similarity
Proximity
Continuity
Closure

20. Grouping - Similarity
The tendency to place items that look similar into a group

22. Grouping - Proximity
The tendency to place objects that are physically close to each other in a group

24. Grouping - Continuity
The tendency to follow a line and continue along the simplest, smoothest path

26. Grouping - Closure
The tendency to fill in gaps in a perceptual field

29. Perceptual Set
a bias or readiness to perceive certain aspects of available sensory data and to ignore others
Stereotypes?

30. Depth Perception ability to see objects in 3D
allows us to judge distance

31. Let’s try it! Binocular vs. monocular…which one’s better?
With both eyes open, touch your index fingers together in front of your face.
Now close one eye and try.
Try at different distances.

32. Depth Perception: Binocular Depth Cues
Module 10: Perception

33. Depth Perception – Binocular Cues
Retinal disparity: differences between 2 images of 1 scene
most effective when the item is quite close to the person

34. Depth Perception – Binocular Cues
Convergence: 2 eyes focusing on the same object creates tension
The more tension, the closer the object
Works best at close distances

35. Depth Perception: Monocular Depth Cues
Module 10: Perception

36. Depth Perception - Monocular Cues
Relative size: Using the perceived size of a familiar object to determine depth
The larger the object appears, the closer the object is to the viewer

37. Depth Perception - Monocular Cues
Relative motion: when moving, we can determine depth by focusing on a distant object
Aka motion parallax

38. Relative Motion

39. Depth Perception – Monocular Cues
Figure-ground: tendency to organize stimuli into objects (the figures) that stand out from their surrounding (the ground)
figure = object (s) that draws one’s attention
ground = background

40. What is the figure, and what is the background here?

41. Depth Perception – Monocular Cues
Interposition/Overlap: closer object blocks distant object

42. Depth Perception – Monocular Cues
Relative clarity: distant objects are less clear than nearby objects
Texture gradient: distant objects have a smoother texture than nearby objects

44. Depth Perception – Monocular Cues
Relative height: distant objects appear higher in your field of vision than do closer objects
Linear perspective: parallel lines appear to converge in the distance
horizon

46. How does perception influence our perspectives?
Let’s Wrap Up
Explain the following: “Everyday experience is not a literal transcript of the world, but an ongoing process of construction by the mind.”
How does perception influence our perspectives?

47. images that differ from objective reality

48. Illusions
Stroboscopic motion: timed flashing lights that gives the illusion of movement