PSYCH 120A Chapter Notes - Chapter 3.3: Necker Cube, Gestalt Psychology, Ambiguous Image
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Gestalt psychologists argued that organization of perception is contributed by the perceiver causing the perceptual whole to be different from the sum of its parts. Necker cube: reversible figure because people can perceive first one way then another. Both perceptions fit with the info received by your eyes. Perception is not neutral, it goes beyond the information given in the drawing by specifying an arrangement in depth. Figure/ground organization: determination of what is figure and what is ground. Drawing is neutral but perception isn"t and contains info about how the form is arranged in depth or about which part of the form is figure and which is ground. Image may stay the same but perception flips back and forth. Changes caused by you and not some change in stimulus. Many stimuli are ambiguous and in need of interpretation but we often don"t detect it.
