PSYC 2390 Study Guide - Final Guide: Binocular Disparity, Feature Integration Theory, Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2390
• Professor: Lana Trick

Document Summary

Inverse projection problem: the idea that a particular image on the retina could have been caused by an infinite number of different objects. This means that the retinal image does not unambiguously specify a stimulus. Viewpoint invariance: the condition in which object properties don"t change when viewed from different angles. Responsible for our ability to recognize objects when viewed from different angles. Gestalt approach to perceptual grouping: structuralism perceptions result from the summation of many elementary sensations. Ex. sensing a flash of light, perceiving a face: apparent movement an illusion of movement that occurs when two objects separated in space are presented rapidly, one after another, separated by a brief time interval. Three components to create this: 1) one image flashes on and off, 2) there is a period of darkness, lasting a fraction of a second, 3) the second image flashes on and off.