Depth Cues
The information that enters our brain from our sense. organs
What is sensation?
Fictions
What is the word for types of visual illusions where we perceive an object that is not actually there?
Top down processing
What is the process of using information already stored in our brain to interpret sensory information known as?
To see if the words used to describe an ambiguous object could affect the way the participants would later withdraw the image
What was the aim of Carmichael et al?
Information that gives a hint or clue about an item, object, or situation.
What is a cue?
Distortions
What word describes visual illusions where the properties of an object appear to have changed or appear to be different from reality?
Conclusions drawn from the information that is available
What are inferences?
How many participants were in the study?
95
The ability to judge how far away objects are from us.
What is depth perception?
Priming
What word is used to describe the process of how being exposed to a certain stimulus can influence the way you respond to a different stimulus later?
1970
What year did Richard Gregory publish his constructivist theory of perception?
How many stimulus figures were used in the study?
12
Monocular and binocular.
What is the difference between using one eye versus two eyes?
The ability to understand that the properties have an object to stay the same even when the size, shape or colour of an object appears to change because of environmental conditions.
What is visual constancy?
The process of taking information into our eyes and sending this to our brain to be processed; then the object can be perceived and understood.
What is bottom up processing?
74%
What percentage of the pictures drawn by the participants in group one resembled the shape of the object The participants were told the image looked like?
Stereopsis
What word is used to describe the process of using the different images from our two eyes to make judgements about how far away different objects are from us?
The Kanizsa triangle
Give one example of an illusion to illustrate fictions
An estimate or guess of what is most likely to have been lost from the available visual information
What is a perceptual hypothesis?
The way a visual image is described to someone will affect how they reproduce that image when asked to draw it
What was the conclusion of the study?