An object will appear to have the same shape even as the angle it is viewed from changes.
What is Shape Consistency
100
The ability to interpret ones surroundings by processing the information by means of sight.
What is Visual Perception
100
Theory uses contextual information and pattern recognition.
What is The Top-Down Theory
100
You see a group of objects before you see the parts that make up the group.
What is The Gestalt Theory
100
Perception that is started with stimulus, carried out from retina to visual cortex, with each stage in visual pathway a more complex analysis forms.
What is The Bottom-Up Theory
200
This can change one's perspective of a figure.
What is Orientation
200
A figure that can be perceived in more than one way.
What is an Ambiguous Figure
200
He formed the Top-Down Theory.
What is Richard Gregory
200
The brain sees the whole before the parts.
What is Emergence
200
He formed The Bottom-Up Theory.
What is James Gibson
300
Previous knowledge allows us to fill in missing parts of a figure.
What is Closure
300
The tendency to perceive the simplest and most stable figure. The less information needed to define an object compared to other alternatives the more likely that figure will be perceived.
What is Figural Goodness
300
Developing a perceptual hypothesis is based on this according to the Top-Down Theory.
What is Prior Knowledge
300
The mind filling gaps.
What is Reification
300
A flow in the optic array means that the viewer is moving.
What is Optic Flow Pattern
400
The negative space of one figure can be filled by the positive space of another figure.
What is A Reversible Figure
400
A cube that is an ambiguous figure that seems to change orientation.
What is The Necker Cube
400
A support of the Top-Down Theory, Unlikely objects can be mistaken for these.
What is Likely or Common Objects
400
The mind tries to avoid uncertainty
What is Multi-Stability
400
Pattern/structure in texture gradients.
What is Invariants
500
The edge of the shape seems to be brighter than the background even if the full perimeter is not visible.
What is Subjective Contour
500
The perspective produced by the bounding converging lines that are associated with distance falsely suggest depth. The line that appears further seems larger thereby producing a size illusion.
What is The Ponzo Illusion
500
There can be two perceptions for one figure because the brain creates two possible hypotheses and cannot choose between them, making this figure.