PSY 302 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Visual Acuity, Depth Perception, Actual Size
30 Jan 2016
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Vision: newborns begin visually exploring the world minutes after leaving the womb. They scan the environment, and when their gaze encounters a person or object, they pause to look at it. Infants are able to track moving objects by 2 or 3 months of age: their visual scanning is restricted. Simple figures, like triangles, infants younger than 2 months look almost exclusively at one corner. With complex shapes, they only scan the outer edges. Instead we perceive a constant shape and size perceptual constancy: object segregation. Binocular disparity- the closer the object we are looking at, the greater the disparity between the. 2 images; the farther away the object, the less the disparity. This form of depth perception emerges at around. These cues are called pictorial cues they can be used to portray depth in pictures v auditory perception. Perception of the location in space of a sound source.
