PSY 1101 Lecture : Chapter 6 Perception.doc

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

School in psychology founded in the early 1900s in germany. Researchers interested in how the brain organizes information collected by the senses. No longer exists as a school of psychology gestalt = a form; a whole. The brain is innately predisposed to organize information into a gestalt (an organized form, a unified whole) The whole may exceed the sum of its parts. E. g. : seeing a circle when there is no circle. The brain is not passive; it is actively involved in construction perception: form perception. We innately organize a visual scene into a figure and ground figure- any object we pay attention to ground- the background. The figure and ground is a creation of the brain, not a property of the physical world. Depth perception allows one to see the world in 3d (width, depth, length) It allows you to determine how close or how far an object is. E. g. : it was tested using a visual cliff.