PSYCH207 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Illusory Contours, Gestalt Psychology, Max Wertheimer
8 Dec 2016
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Perception: taking sensory input and interpreting it meaningfully. Central problem in perception is to explain how we attach meaning to sensory information. Perception can be divided into visual, auditory, olfactory, touch (haptic), gustatory (taste) perception. Distal stimulus: objects in the real world that are to be perceived. Proximal stimulus: the reception of information and its registration by a sense organ. The meaning interpretation of the proximal stimulus is the percept. Pattern recognition: recognition of a particular object, event, and so on, as belonging to a class of object, event and so on. By max wertheimer, kurt koffka and wolfgang kohler. Form perception: the segregation of a whole display into objects and the background. It is a cognitive task that we perform very quickly. Subjective contours or illusory contours by gregory: (the invisible triangle example): believed that this relatively complex display is subject to a simplified interpretation the perceiver makes without even being aware of making it.
