PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Availability Heuristic, Ais People, Bacon

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

The whole is not equal to the sum of its parts. Whole is not equal to the sum of its parts: our thoughts and preconceptions shape what we perceive, we don"t see exactly what"s out there, our thoughts shape our perceptions. Figure and ground in perception (old lady vs. young lady image) Ground is what is behind that is not being perceived at the moment. Gure / ground perceptions show us that we are taking the stimuli and adding our preconceptions and understandings to it, in uencing what we see. Proximity: group things that are close together as being part of the same group. Similarity: tend to group similar things together. Connectedness: group together things that are connected together. Closure: supply meaning which is not physically there at all (*seeing triangle) Good form: tend to see things as a whole, even when its not there. Perceptual set (expectations in uence what you actually perceive)