PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Animal Locomotion, Visual Acuity, Eleanor J. Gibson
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Visual percepion need to be able to perceive and interpret those percepions look at how children"s percepion changes as a funcion of the environment they are put into. Descartes proposed naivist theory of space percepion- knowing distance between eyes and angle that eyes are looking at allows you to compute angle of convergence/distance of object using geometry. Quesion- descartes theory of depth percepion predicts that: only children who have learned geometry can perceive depth, only children who can walk can perceive depth, none of the above. If space percepion is innate, it should appear before visual experience. Opion 1) speciic efect of experience- cats learn clif is not dangerous via experience: if this is true, the cat will learn that the clif is safe. How do infants perceive space prior to locomoion: know this occurs because infants learn to reach before crawling.
