PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cortical Column, Ames Room, Occipital Lobe
29 Mar 2018
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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Believed that people perceive the whole stimulus rather than each individual part. A reaction to the strcturalist approach: structuralist approach suggested everything could be reduced to basic elements. Ex. consider perception of movement you experience when watching a movie made by flashing slightly different static pictures every second. Motion is an emergent property of a sequence of pictures. We perceive continuous movement as we watch the rapid sequence of still pictures. Motion is an emergent property of the sequence of pictures. Laws that describe how we organize visual input: we are either born with these laws of organization, or grouping tendencies which are called gestalt principles or that we acquire them very rapidly, 1. Continuity the ability to perceive a simple, continuous form rather than a combination of awkward forms: ex. we see an x as an x rather than a v and an upside down v, 6.
