PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Necker Cube, Ambiguous Image, Parietal Lobe
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Human vision is the dominant sense; more brain area is devoted to vision. We tend to trust our vision over other senses when our sensory input conflicts. Form perception: the process through which you manage to see the basic shape/size of an object. Object recognition: the process through which you identify what the object is. Crucial for applying your knowledge to the world (& so to take on an action based on what you know about shoes, phones, etc. ) Also crucial for learning in order to combine information collected on different occasions about a person or a thing, you must be able to identify it. Gesalt psychologists: organization must be contributed by the perceiver, which is why the perceptual whole is often different than the sum of its parts. Beyond the information given ways that our rperception of a stimulus differs from (& goes beyond) the stimulus itself. Necker cube: reversible figure can be percieved in 2 different ways.
