PSYB57H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Visual Search
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Typoglycemia allows us to understand misspelled words as long as the first and last letter is in the right place. We must be able to recognize what"s in front of us to apply knowledge to it. We may not completely recognize what we see; we can therefore create new knowledge about the object. How do we perceive and recognize objects? (form perception) Form perception (size and shape) vs object recognition (identification) Simple visual features -> object recognition -> knowledge. In form perception, there can be one set of visual features, there can be two possible interpretations. However, only one can be seen at a time. If someone"s body is hidden behind something but their head is visible, we don"t assume that they are a floating head; we assume their body is behind the object. The ability to interpret scenes are governed by basic principles (1) similarity.
