PSYC 499 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Parallax, Binocular Disparity, Subjective Constancy
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Reversible figure = visual pattern that easily allows more than one interpretation in some cases changing the specification of figure and ground, in other cases changing the perceived organization in depth. I. e. the necker cube seen as vase or pair of silhouetted faces. Gestalt psychology = emphasizes the role of organized wholes in perception and other psychological processes. Principle of similarity if all other things are equal, figures that are grouped together resemble each other. Good continuation = tend to perceive contours in a way that alters their direction as little as possible. Subjective contours = perceived contours that do not exist physically; we tend to complete figures that have gaps in them by perceiving a contour as continuing along its original path. Visual search procedure = task in which participants are asked to determine whether a specified target is presented within a field of a stimuli.
