PSYCH 1XX3 Quiz: Form Perception 1 Module Notes
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Distinguishing gure from background is a complex visual function. How do we perceive form so quickly and effortlessly. We will begin with some basic principles of perception. Group of psychologists in 20"s and 30"s in germany began to study how people perceive the world. With respect to perception, they believed that: the whole is different than the sum of its parts, people seemed to perceive whole stimulus rather than putting together collection of discrete stimuli parts. Gestalt movement: reaction to structuralist approach during that time, it was suggested that everything could be reduce to basic elements. Motion is an emergent property of a sequence of pictures. Although we perceive movies to have continuous movements: they are actually many picture being ashed constantly, but there isn"t any real continuous movement in these frames, we only perceive this. Gestalt principles: laws that describe how we organize visual input.
