1. Perceptual Interpretation
Chapter 6
Perceptual Interpretation

2. Sensory Restriction: Blakemore & Cooper, 1970
Kittens raised without exposure to horizontal lines later had difficulty perceiving horizontal bars

3. Perceptual Interpretation
Perceptual Adaptation
(vision) ability to adjust to an artificially displaced visual field
prism glasses
Perceptual Set
a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

4. Perceptual Set: Schemas
What you see in the center is influenced by perceptual set

5. Perceptual Set: Schemas
Flying Saucers or Clouds?

6. Perception and the Human Factor
Human Factors Psychology
explores how people and machines interact
explores how machine and physical environments can be adapted to human behaviors

7. Perceptual Set: Human Factors
Actual
descent
path
Pilot’s perceived
descent path
Altitude looks
this much higher
Distance from runway (miles) 10 8 6 4 2
Altitude
(thousands
of feet)

8. Is There Extrasensory Perception?
controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input
telepathy
clairvoyance
precognition
Parapsychology
the study of paranormal phenomena
ESP
psychokinesis