PSYCH 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Photopic Vision, Circadian Rhythm, Color Vision
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Cones: permit sharply focused, color vision in bright light: 2. Gestalt principles of perceptual grouping: gestalt psychology: school of thought that argues we automatically perceive whole, organized patterns and objects. Recognize whole chair before seeing different parts of it: built-in rules for organizing stimulus elements into wholes, 1. Common movement: illusory contours, illusory lightness difference, 2. Seeing in three dimensions: helmholtz rst to term unconscious inference to explain visual perception. Cues for depth perception: binocular cues for depth, eyes see 2d and brain works out calculations of depth, two cues contribute to binocular (two-eye) vision, 1. Binocular disparity (way more important: inward turning of eye as you look closer at something, slightly different views that the two eyes have of the same object. Occlusion: near objects cut off from view more distant ones: 2. Relative image size for familiar objects (woman and mountain same picture size but we know woman is smaller): 3.
