NUTR 301 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Amusement Park, Depth Perception, Moon Illusion

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Introduction: perception --> brain intercepts sensory information (focus on the whole picture, not all the very little details - tiresome) notion of gestalt" whole is greater than the sum of its part. 2. attention: attend to meaningful stimuli and filter out irrelevant stimuli. 3. inattentional blindness : you are told to focus on something and miss something completely obvious (eg. a gorilla) you miss things, things happen. 5. perceptual set: setting the scene so that you think of something, that you are not sure what it was before, to be something eg. 12345, abcdefghi exercise. 6. subliminal perception: happens at a lower level but it might affect what"s going on (below the conscious level of awareness) eg. fedex hidden arrow. Principles of perceptual organization: figure ground: disembedding object - background. _______ (c) continuity: we tend to see a-->b, and c-->d and not a-->d or c-->b: closure: we are able to fill in the missing gaps.

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