PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Subjective Constancy, Outline Of Object Recognition, Principles Of Grouping
11 Oct 2018
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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Believed that people perceive the whole stimulus rather than each individual part. A reaction to the stru cturalist approach (everything can be reduced to basic elements) Motion is an emergent property of a sequence of pictures. Laws that describe how we organize visual input. The ability to distinguish and object from its background in a visual scene. The tendency to group elements that are close together in space. The tendency to fill in gaps in a contour to perceive a whole object. The tendency to group together elements that are physically similar. The ability to perceive a simple, continuous form rather than a combination of awkward forms. The tendency to group together elements that change in the same way. (i. e. moving together in the same time at the same time)
