PSYCH 1XX3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Emergence, Lightning, Color Constancy
24 Nov 2018
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Distinguishing figure from background is a complex visual function: visual system needs to do a tremendous amount of work to figure out what is part of background and what is part of object. A group of psychologists began to study how people perceive the world around them. The whole is different than the sum of its parts. ". They believed that people tended to perceive the whole stimulus rather than putting together a collection of stimulus" discrete parts. The gestalt movement part of a reaction to the structuralist approach that suggested everything could be reduced to basic elements. Movies are made from quickly flashing static pictures. For example, consider the perception of movement we experience when watching a movie made by flashing slightly different static pictures every second. Motion is an emergent property of a sequence of pictures. Gestalt principles- laws of organization that described how we group visual input in certain ways.
