PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Max Wertheimer, Inattentional Blindness, Complex Differential Form

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1200
• Professor: Dawson Clary

Document Summary

Perceptual set = a readiness to perceive a stimulus in a particular way (creates slant in how someone interprets sensory input) Inattentional blindness = failure to see fully visible objects/events in a visual display (likelihood increases when people work on tasks that require a lot of attention/create a heavy perceptual load explains car crashes) Feature analysis = process of detecting specific elements in visual input and assembling them into more complex form. Bottom-up processing = progression from individual elements to the whole (not often form perception) Top-down processing = progression from the whole into individual elements. Subjective contours = perception of contours where none exist. Phi-phenomenon = illusion of movement created by presenting visual stimuli in rapid succession (max wertheimer) Distal stimuli = stimuli that lie in the distance. Ambiguous drawings = not enough information to force perceptual system to accept only 1 hypothesis.