PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Visual Search, Visual Perception, Interstimulus Interval

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO258
• Professor: Weimin Mou

Document Summary

Perception is: experience resulting from stimulation of the sense. Involves a process similar to reasoning or problem solving. Can run and think at the same time. Involves dynamic processes that accompany and support our actions. It is possible that true human perceptual processes are unique to humans. Attempts to create arti cial forms of perception (machines) have been met with limited success, and each time have had problems that could not be solved. Refers to the task of determining the object responsible for a particular image on the retina. Involves starting with the retinal image and then extending outward to the source of that image. Humans can solve the inverse projection problem easily, while computers cannot. People can often identify objects that are obscured and therefore incomplete, or in some cases objects that are blurry. Can perceive a book in a picture even if it is half hidden. understand that the part of.