PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Parallax, Railways Act 1921, Retina

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Elements that are close to one another tend to be grouped together. Viewers tend to supply missing elements to close or complete a familiar. Elements that are similar tend to be grouped together. Viewers tend to organize elements in the simplest way possible. Elaboration, transformation, interpretation of what is registered by the senses. Your brain assigns a background to change perception. You see the world that you have made. But you don"t see yourself as the image maker. We tend to simplify and transform figures so that we can maneuver around in the world and make life easier. Binocular cues: the left and right retina are going to have slightly different images than each other. Retinal disparity: the difference between both retinas: greater disparity = Important for more distant objects: relative size: objects that are expected to be further away, looks smaller.