PSYCH 1XX3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Gestalt Psychology, Principles Of Grouping, Emergence
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Believed that people perceive the whole stimulus rather than each individual part. There is not continuous movement in or across any of the frames but we still perceive continuous movement as we watch rapid sequence of still pictures. Motion is an emergent property of the sequence of pictures. The perception of a movie in its entirety, including all of the complex movement is something more than the collection of thousands of still photographs. Analyzing the pictures wouldn"t give the same experience. Gestalt principles: laws that describe how we organize visual input: figure-ground separation: the ability to determine what aspect of a visual scene is part of the object itself and what is part of the background. Preliminary steps in object recognition involve identifying what aspect of the scene is the background and the foreground. Once identified the parts of the figure are grouped together into a single object.
