PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Depth Perception, Goanna, Retina

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Todays agenda: perceptual organization, grouping principles, depth perception b. i. Perception: elaboration, transformation, interpretation of what is registered by the sense, humans see what they want to see, we assign meaning to sensory experiences. Top- down process: about perception and assignment of meaning, subjective contours (pg. Based on the way in which we operate our perception is often fooled to see geometric patterns. Perception organization as explained in the txtbk. Grouping principles need to know these principles. Proximity - objects closer together are combined and are seen to be belonging to one another. Closure we supply missing elements to complete a picture - our eyes tend to go towards simplest interpretation we close the gap to simply the world rather see the whole than a part. Simplicity when you chose to look at the simplest possible organization. We tend to organize and simply into to help us maneuver the world we tend to solve perceptual issues for our own interest.