PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Ambiguous Image, Behaviorism
Document Summary
Slide 7: european response to siegmund freud with studies on perception. When you look at a scene, you figure out what is the subject, the foreground (figure), and which is the background (ground). In the image, the blue part is the figure. Looking at a figure, you see the edges, and that would assume that the figure is the focus. Slide 8: left image- you can see both two people and a white vase. This one is an ambiguous image in that both parts can be figures. Right image- image by esher, another famous one is the impossible staircase. Slide 9: you can have a single image that can be ambiguous- you can see a young, fashionable woman, but also an old woman. This is a way where sensation and perspective play a role. You can flip the image from one perspective to another, but the sensory is not changed.
