PSYB57H3 Chapter 3: chapter 3

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The perception is not completely determined by the stimulus display; it requires the perceiver"s active participation: perceivers follow certain laws or principles of organization in coming to their interpretation. The whole is not the same as the sum of its parts, rejected the claim that we recognize objects by identifying individual features or parts: gestalt principles of perceptual organization. principle of common fate www. notesolution. com: law of pragnanz. All the possible ways of interpreting a display, we will tend to select the organization that yields the simplest and most stable shape or form. The perceiver starts w/ small bits of info from the environment that she combines in various ways to form a percept. Form a perception from only the info in the distal stimulus the system works in one direction, starting from the input and proceeding to a final interpretation.