PSYCH 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gestalt Psychology, Railways Act 1921, Binocular Disparity
11 Jan 2017
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Both squares are the same colour although the top one looks grey and the bottom one looks white, they"re both grey!!: colour constancy. Colour of an object is perceived relative to its background; we discount illumination: eg. The banana still looks yellow, white and gold dress. Figure-grou(cid:374)d: first deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)e what"s the figure/object then figure out what is the ground/background: 2. Gestalt principles: the whole is different from the sum of its parts. How do we tend to group objects. How our mind creates objects (figure 3. 14: similarity, proximity, good continuation, closure, simplicity. All of these interact with each other to come up with an interpretation of what you are seeing. Key is organizing the input into objects. Oculomotor nerve controls the movement of the eyeball. Accommodation (near space: object is far, the lens stays flat, object is near, lens will have to change the size to adjust for the distance, ability to focus on nearby objects.
