INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY Chapter 5 Perception At the
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INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY Chapter 5 Perception
At the end of this Chapter you should be able to: • Understand what Distance Perception is • Understand what Motion Perception is • Understand what Form Perception is • Learn about Attention • Learn about Visual Illusions
Visual Perception • The retinal image is only twodimensional; height and width. . . • From the two-dimensional images that fall on our retinas we somehow are able to see threedimensional objects.
Visual Perception • Seeing objects in three dimensions, or depth perception, allows us to estimate distances between those objects and us.
Visual Perception • Psychologists are particularly interested in the cues which enable people to perceive depth and distance. These cues may be monocular, effective when using one eye as well as two, or binocular, requiring the usage of both eyes.
Depth & Distance Perception • Depth Perception: Ability to see three-dimensional space and to accurately judge distances • Depth Cues: Features that supply information about distance and space.
Depth & Distance Cues – Binocular cues • We compare the retinal image in one eye to the retinal image in the other; they differ: each eye is a slightly different distance from an object in the world
Depth & Distance Cues – Monocular cues • Interposition • Linear perspective • Texture Gradients • Relative Size • Light and Shadow • Motion Parallax
Binocular disparity The disparity between the views serves as a powerful cue for depth
Monocular Cues: Interposition: When one object partly blocks your view of another, you perceive the partially blocked object as farther away
Monocular Cues: Interposition: The fact that mailbox blocks the view is a powerful cue that the mailbox must be closer to the observer than the sport car is
Monocular Cues: Interposition Madonna of the Magnificat by Sandro Botticelli.
Monocular Cues: Linear Perspective: Parallel lines that are known to be the same distance apart appear to grow closer together, or converge, as they recede into the distance
Monocular Cues: Linear Perspective
Monocular Cues: Texture Gradients: The texture of objects tend to become smoother as the object gets farther away, suggesting that more detailed textured objects are closer.
Monocular Cues: Relative Size • Relative size: Larger objects are perceived as being closer to the viewer, and smaller objects as being farther away
Monocular Cues: Relative Size
Monocular Cues: Light and Shadow Monocular cues: light and shadow: (A) Eight circular objects. To most viewers, the one in the middle looks concave, indented, whereas other seven look as if they are bulging out. (B) The same figure rotated 180 degrees. Now, the middle object looks convex, while others seem concave. The reason is the location of the shadow. If the shadow is at the bottom, the object looks convex, if the shadow is at the top, the object looks concave.
Monocular Cues: Light and Shadow
Monocular Cues: Motion Parallax • When you ride in a moving vehicle and look at the side window, the objects you see appear outside move in opposite direction • Objects seem to be moving in different speeds-the ones that are closer to you seem to move faster, whereas objects far behind seem to move slower
Monocular Cues: Motion Parallax
Perceptual Constancy The tendency to perceive objects as maintaining stable properties (e. g. , size, shape, brightness, and color) despite differences in distance, viewing angle, and lighting
Size Constancy Size constancy refers to our ability to see objects as maintaining the same size even when our distance from them makes things appear larger or smaller.
Shape constancy Shape Constancy: Perceiving objects as having a stable or unchanging shape regardless of changes in the retinal image resulting from differences in viewing angle
VIDEO of Julian Beever, an English artist, who paints sidewalks in an amazing 3 -D way. .
Motion Perception • Perception of an event -motion- rather than an object • Motion tells us what the object is doing.
Apparent motion • When intervals between images occur at correct timing (not too far apart in time) we perceive motion • This principle used to create ‘motion’ from stills
Apparent motion • In movies, when still pictures are put together, it produces the sensation of movement for the viewer (audience). Even though there is no ACTUAL movement. • We do not only detect motion but we also interpret it.
Apparent Movement
Apparent motion • Motion
What about the variability in objects that we see? • The same animal but the features look different. So how can we classify all of them as a giraffe?
What about the variability in objects that we see? • We recognize giraffes as being giraffes whether we see them from the side, or the front, or close up, or from far away. • Do we actually pay attention to every detail (feature)? • We only interpret crucial information. We don’t have time in the real-world to pay attention to every little detail. Otherwise we cannot survive!
Form Perception • Detecting object features (parts) • The importance of organization • Perceptual parsing • Separating the figure from the ground
Organization’s role in perception • Features: some we ignore, some we attend to • How do we decide whether to ignore or attend? • We interpret some features as being part of the object, other features as irrelevant • How do we group together features that belong with each other?
A hidden figure
Missing features
Gestalt Psychology • The German word "Gestalt" roughly means to "whole" or "form" • “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. ” • In order to interpret what we receive through our senses, we attempt to organize this information into certain groups. – Sense of shape: derived from the whole, not the sum of its parts
Gestalt principles organization • Perceptual parsing: – Segregating the “scene” into its constituent objects – The first step to organizing • Gestalt principles of organization: • Issues of figure/ground • Similarity • Proximity • Good continuation – “subjective contours”
Perseptual Parsing
Grouping by similarity
Grouping by proximity
Good Continuation
Subjective contours
Gestalt psychology – Important: Is the object figure or ground? • Our interpretation of figure / ground will influence how we perceive an object
Reversible figure-ground pattern
The classical approach to perception • Emphasis on the active, constructive role of the perceiver, who routinely: – Resolves ambiguous figures – Determines identity of objects based on contextual clues and previous knowledge – Determines identity of objects based on contextual clues
Ambiguous Necker Cube
Contextual clues (and previous knowledge)
Illusions: How could we make such mistakes? • Cues sometimes cause an overestimate or under-estimate; • Slight over/under interpretations can cause us to misinterpret the information we receive • Usually: – perceptions are accurate – are based on relevant experience – reflect the world we live in
The Ponzo Illusion
Brightness Illusion
Perceptual selection: Attention • What starts the synchrony? One possible mechanisms: ATTENTION • Selective control of orientation – Selective looking • Difficult when target represents multiple, rather than a single, feature
VIDEO on Attention 1(when you do not expect to see any changes) VIDEO on Attention 2 (when you expect to see changes)
Some final thoughts: Seeing, knowing, and the perceiver’s active role • Perception is not knowledge • Knowledge and perception are mutually influenced, but are not the same thing: the perceiver and the knower are distinct in many instances
In this experiment, subjects were asked to keep the track of the ball players in white shirts. Intent on their task, the subjects were not paying any attention to the black shirted players, even though they are looking directly at them. AND THEY ALSO FAILED TO SEE. . .
VIDEO about the blind Turkish artist Eşref Armağan
Web Links for Optical Illusions • Mueller-Lyer Illusion • Brightness Illusion • Checker-Shadow Illusion
Attention Demos The Stroop Effect
As fast as you can, read the names of the colors
As fast as you can, (don’t read the word) but read the name of the color of the word.
As fast as you can, (don’t read the word) but read the name of the color of the word.
As fast as you can, (don’t read the word) but read the name of the color of the word.
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