Psychology 2015A/B Chapter Notes -Visual Masking, Backward Masking, Contact Lens

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2015A/B
• Professor: Stephen Lupker

Document Summary

Contours/edges: fundamental building block for any visual pattern. Area in the array of visual information in which there is an abrupt change in luminance. Defines the shape we see and details that distinguish one shape from another. Ganzfeld: snow storm, visual system shuts off (all white) Contact lens experiment: eyes are always in motion. Word hat on contact lens= after a while will disappear. Visual system trying to do least amount of work. Organization with the lowest figured complexity: more likely seen. Structuralist: the way we perceive an object- something already in memory. Gestaltists: spend time trying to figure principles to explain how people perceive objects. *make things as simple as possible: law of pragnanz. Temporal properties of a visual st memory buffer. Report one letter that has an indicator around it. Increases in the interval because onset of the letter array and marker caused a decrease in the accuracy of the indentification of the target letter.