1. UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
AREA OF STUDY 1: WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY?

2. DISTORTIONS OF VISUAL PERCEPTION BY ILLUSIONS
GRIVAS – pg.133

3. DISTORTIONS OF VISUAL PERCEPTION BY ILLUSIONS
VISUAL ILLUSION
A misinterpretation (distortion or mistake) of real sensory information
A mismatch between our perception and what we understand as reality
GRIVAS – pg.133

4. DISTORTIONS OF VISUAL PERCEPTION BY ILLUSIONS
VISUAL ILLUSION
The two visual illusions we will look at in-depth include:
The Muller-Lyer Illusion
The Ames Room Illusion
GRIVAS – pg

5. THE MULLER-LYER ILLUSION
A visual illusion in which one of two lines of equal length, each of which has opposite shaped ends, is incorrectly perceived as being longer than the other
GRIVAS – pg

6. THE MULLER-LYER ILLUSION
GRIVAS – pg
BEHAVIOURAL PERSPECTIVE

7. THE MULLER-LYER ILLUSION
How would you explain the Muller-Lyer Illusion using the; Biological Perspective? Behavioural Perspective? Cognitive Perspective? Socio-Cultural Perspective? Read about this on page
GRIVAS – pg

8. HOMEWORK
Learning Activity 3.29 (pg.138)

9. THE AMES ROOM ILLUSION
A trapezium-shaped room that is longer and higher on one side than the other. The room’s unusual shape and being restricted to the use of monocular vision to view it provides the basis for the illusion. People in the room appear larger on the right than they do on the left
GRIVAS – pg

10. THE AMES ROOM ILLUSION
GRIVAS – pg

11. CONSTRUCT YOUR OWN AMES ROOM ACTIVITY
THE AMES ROOM ILLUSION
CONSTRUCT YOUR OWN AMES ROOM ACTIVITY

12. HOMEWORK
Learning Activity 3.31 (pg.140)