PSY 1101 Midterm: midterm 2 psy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Perception: perceptual organization select, organize, interpret info in a meaningful way. Gestalt psychology: founded in 1900s in germany a "gestalt" is a whole ex. The brain organizes info into a gestalt (- a whole), we see a face as a whole face instead of as a oating nose and and eye and a random eyebrow. The whole may exceed the sum of its parts . Perceiving is not passive the brain actively constructs reality. Form perception: figure (the focus) and ground (the background) Grouping (done by brain): rules: proximity elements spacially close together will be perceived as a as a unit. Similarity elements physically similar will be perceived unit perceived as a unit be percieved. Continuity elements that continue a pattern will be. Connectedness elements connected by other elements will as a unit. Closure when an image is incomplete, the brain will ll the blanks. Depth perception: the physical nearness to an object.