01:830:305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Thinking Room, Ames Room, Color Constancy

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:305
• Professor: Professor Feldman

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Bold due only to critical aspect of task. The proximal stimulus inherently ambiguous; it is consistent with many interpretations. Means when you get the visual image proximal stimulus there are plenty of things it could be (ambiguous) and brain had to find out what is the image i am looking at. The real image (3d) is the real distal (distant) stimulus and your brain sees it as like a picture that is only 2 dimensional=proximal stimulus. There is then a mental representation (what you think) Perception as inverse optics = just a metaphor not actually switching the view of something: aka unconscious inference , your brain has to unconsciously (without being aware of this) put together what you are viewing is. Depth ambiguity- you do not know the distance from you. Each 2d stimulus is consistent with an infinite number of 3d objects (distal stimuli) You see the interpretation, not the image : ex.