PSYCH207 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Agnosia, Prosopagnosia, Phoneme
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Distal stimulus: objects and events things to be perceived. Proximal stimulus: the reception of information and its registry by a sense organ. Form perception: segregation of the whole display into objects and the background. Gestalt school was particularly interested in how people look at whole objects. Perceiver starts with small bits of information from the environment and combines it in ways to form a percept. Template matching: think bar code, this ignores how we perceive/recognize new objects. Feature analysis: fits with neurophysiological evidence, think matching lines to the alphabet, selfridge"s pandemonium model. Consists of (cid:498)demons(cid:499) that scream at different volumes. Prototype matching: things do not have to be an exact match in order to recognize stimulus, think handwriting. Change blindness: inability to detect changes to an object or scene especially when: happens in movies when there is continuity errors most people don"t notice given different views of that object or scene.
