PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gestalt Psychology, Depth Perception, Ambiguous Image

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Professor O

Document Summary

The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting sensory information, which. Perceptual set is an example of top-down processing. Impossible figures: visual riddles that capitalize on our urge to organize visual elements into a meaningful whole, devils tuning fork, stairway to nowhere. Gestalt principles: depth perception: depth perception, represents ability to see objects in three dimensions, although the images that strike the retina are two dimensional, allows us to judge distance. Is present, at least in part, at birth in humans and other animals. Binocular cues: two eyes help perception of depth. Binocular cue for perceiving depth, by comparing images from the two eyes, the brain calculates distance and is used by 3-d film makers. When two eyes move inward (towards the nose) to see near objects and outward (away from the nose) to see faraway objects. Depth cue, such as interposition or linear perspective, available to either eye alone.