Psych Notes: Perception

-the process of organizing and interpreting information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events
-Gestalt Philosophy: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
-Figure-Ground Relationships: the organization of the visual field into objects (figures) that stand out from their surroundings (ground)
-Grouping: the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into groups that we understand
  1. Proximity
  2. Similarity
  3. Continuity
  4. Connectedness
Depth Perception
-the ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two dimensional
-allows us to judge distance

Binocular Cues
-Retinal Disparity: a binocular cue for seeing depth
-the closer an object comes to you, the greater the disparity is between the two images

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