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CH4 part 3 perceptio
Principles of Perception
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Gestalt Principles of form perception | figure-ground, proximity, similarity, continuity, closure, and simplicity |
| Distal | Stimuli outside the body vs proximal stimuli |
| Proximal | stimulus energies impinging on sensory receptors |
| Impinging | Have an effect or impact |
| perceptual hypothesis | context |
| Gestalt | is still felt in the study of perception, had useful insights that have stood the test of time and have raised important issues |
| Form perception | Top-down processing |
| Reversible Figure | is a drawing that is compatible with two interpretations that can shift back and forth. |
| Perceptual set | is a readiness to perceive a stimulus in a particular way |
| Inattentional blindness | involves the failure to see fully visible objects or events in a visual display. |
| Feature Detection Theory | People detect specific elements in stimuli and build them up into recognizable forms bottom-up processing |
| Subjective contours | is a phenomenon whereby contours are perceived where none actually exist, attributed to top-down processing |
| Form Perception | involves top-down processing clearly emphasized by Gestalt psychologists who demonstrated that the whole is more than the sum of its parts |
| Feature detection theory | bottom-up processing |
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