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Year 9 Topic: Perception

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Depth cues & Illusions 

Accurate definitions of:
  • Sensation
  • Perception
Monocular depth cues (one eye)
  • Height in plane
  • Relative size
  • Occlusion
  • Linear perspective
Binocular depth cues (two eyes)
  • Retinal disparity
  • Convergence
​Illusions
  • Necker Cube
  • Rubin's Vase
  • Ponzo Illusion
  • Kanizsa Triangle
  • Muller Lyer Illusion
  • Ames Room
  • Ambiguity
  • Fiction
  • Misinterpreted depth cue
  • ​Size constancy

Theories

Gibson (Direct Ecological Theory)
  • Active world
  • Motion parallax
  • Gradient of texture
  • Gradient of colour
  • Affordances, not inferences
  • Evaluation
Gregory (Constructive Perception)
  • Past experiences - constructive
  • Perceptual hypotheses
  • Mistaken hypotheses
  • Inferences, not affordances
  • We use our stored knowledge to help us perceive
  • ​Evaluation

Factors that Affect Perception 

Culture
  • Elephant drawings
Expectation and Perceptual Set
  • Broken B/13 study
Motivation and Emotions
  • Food/hunger/starving study

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