PSYC 3260 Chapter 3: Chapter 3 Perception.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3260
• Professor: Norman Park

Document Summary

Chapter 3 perception: perception is a dynamic process. In everyday perception, we are usually moving or watching something in progress, therefore our perception is always changing due to distance or experiences. For example, grapping a cup of coffee in various positions on the table. The process of recognizing, organizing, and interpreting information from senses: not an exact copy of the world , based on our past experience and expectations. Thalamus processes and relays the neural response: relayed to specialized areas of the cortex, perception of the world is created. Approaches to understand perception: direct perception theories. Perception comes from stimuli in the environment. Parts are identified and put together, and then recognition occurs: constructive perception theories. People actively construct perceptions using information based on expectations. We perceive objects by perceiving elementary features. Objects are recognized when enough information is available to identify object"s geons. Geons: discriminability: geons can be distinguished from other geons from almost all viewpoints.