PSYCH 1XX3 Quiz: Form Perception 1 & 2
14 Mar 2016
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Introduction (cid:0) gestalt: 1920-1930"s: german psychologists studied form. They believed that rather than piecing together the individual parts of the stimuli to produce the collection, people perceive the whole stimulus. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It was a reaction to the structuralist approach (everything could be reduced to basic elements - reductionism) (cid:0) motion as an emergent property of the sequence of pictures. Although sequential pictures have no movement, we perceive them as moving. There is no motion however the motion is perceived. (cid:0) gestalt principles are laws of organization that are innate or acquired rapidly. Laws that describe how we group visual input. (cid:0) 1. Figure-ground- the ability to determine what aspect of a visual scene is part of the object itself or part of the background. The process of determining what is figure and what is background seems automatic. Viewing a vase of flowers against a flower patterned wallpaper. (cid:0) 2.
