PSYC 213 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Moon Illusion, Visual Agnosia, Word Superiority Effect
19 Nov 2012
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Visual agnosia: a deficiency in the ability to recognize visual information despite being able to see. Associative agnosia: a form of visual agnosia marked by a difficulty naming objects. Time spaces: the perceptual experience of time units such as days of the week or months of the year as occupying special locations outside of the body. Perception: processing sensory information such that it produces a meaningful understanding of the information. Stimulus: an entity in the external environment that can be perceived by another. Theory of ecological optics: the proposal that perception involves directly absorbing the visual information present in the environment. Ambient optical array (aoa): all the visual information that is present at a particular point of view. Texture gradients: gradual changes in the pattern of a surface that is normally information about surface assumed characteristics such as whether the surface is receding or curved. to be uniform, which provides.
