Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Depth Perception, Subjective Constancy, Vanishing Point

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

See a word and then a picture with 2 meanings, you see the image relating to. Depth perception the word: binocular versus monocular cues. Two eyes vs. one eye in use. Distance shown in each eye is not the same. Brain calculates how far objects are through this disparity of distance: monocular cues. One eye is needed to see the cue. Looking past one to another, the closer person looks bigger. The more complete image is closest to you. Where the lines come together, converge, is the farthest point. Density of images in front of you. As things fade into distance, they increase in density, can"t count total number of objects and this is used as a cue to judge distance. High density = far away: size constancy. When object is noticed, object is re-scaled so that they remain constant at any distance. To figure out how world works, we have to learn it.