PSYC 2650 Chapter 3: PSYCH 2650 CHAPTER 3

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Our dominant sense as humans is vision. It re ects our behaviour and if vision con icts with information received from other senses, we usually place trust in vision. Form perception: the process through which you manage to see the basic shape and size of an object. Object recognition: the process through which you identify what the object is. It is essential whenever you want to apply your knowledge to the world, our interactions and it is crucial for learning. These reversible gures is neutral in regards to perceptual organization. It is also neutral with the fact of gure/ground organization - the determination of what is the. However, your perception of this gure is not neutral, instead it is our perception that somehow speci es what you are looking at. With reversible gures, the perceivers role is obvious. The geometry of the gure is always the same no matter how you perceive it.