PSYC 2650 Chapter 3: Chapter 3.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Obtain information about the world via sensory modalities. Vision is the dominant sense form perception: the process by which you manage to see what the basic shape ad size of an object are. Object recognition: process through which you identify what the object is. Without recognition you cannot bring you knowledge to the world for learning: usually have to combine new info with previously learned. Gestalt psychologists: perception of the visual world is organized in ways that the stimulus input is not, organization must be contributed by the perceiver and is different from the sum of its parts. Jerome bruner: beyond the information given coined that phrase, our perception of a stimulus differs from the stimulus itself, necker cube ambiguous cause it can be perceived in more than one way. Figure/ground organization- determination of what is the figure and what is the ground.