PSYCH 1XX3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gestalt Psychology, Emergence, Subjective Constancy
16 Mar 2018
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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Believed that people perceive the whole stimulus rather than each individual part. Motion is an emergent property of a sequence of pictures. What you expect to see directly influences wht you actually see. Establishing figure from background is the first step to object recognition. Object recognition is guided by the features that are present in the stimulus. Recognizing individual features and comparing them to similar features in your memory. Object recognition is guided by your own beliefs or expectations. Recognition can be primed in top down processing. Top down processing needs some input from the stimulus to actually work. Both top down and bottom up processing guide object recognition. Can rely on varying degrees of processing. Geon theory suggest that we have representative geons stored in our memory. Brain injury an affect recognition for only certain types of objects.
