Psychology 2015A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Comparator, Jerky, Optical Flow

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2015A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

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Ah 201 final at 9am april 17 chapt 5, 6, 9, 10, and 8 will be about 80 questions. Ex. looking at two pictures of people walking, or playing basketball - the perception of movement is given because shown in mid walk or jump . Survival in the environment (ex. cheetah vs. antelope) 2 triangles started fighting one got mad and broke the house little triangle and the small circle looked like they were friends and the bigger triangle was the mean one. We relied on the motion of the shapes to create a story. Real motion: an object is physically moving ex. a car, a person, an animal. Illusory motion: aka apparent movement: stationary stimuli are presented in slightly different locations ex. cartoons, basis of movement in movies and tv (video, a series of pictures can look like its moving ex. cartoons.