Visual Perception Principles

Visual Perception involves...

• The sensing of visual objects

• The detection, processing and interpretation of visual information.

• Processing visual information

• Interpreting visual information

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

The ‘rules’ that we apply to visual information to help us organise and interpret it are called:

• Visual rules

• Visual perception

• Visual systems

• Visual perception principles

____________ describe ways that we organise parts of a visual scene by grouping them to interpret/perceive a whole, complete form.

• Depth perception principles

• Perceptual constancies

• Gestalt principles

• Visual perception

Which of the following are examples of Gestalt principles?

• Figure-ground

• Closure

• Accommodation

• Proximity

____________ is the manipulation of figure-ground where the figure blends in to the background.

• Closure

• Similarity

• Proximity

• Camouflage

Which Gestalt principle in represented in this image?

• Similarity

• Proximity

• Figure ground

• Closure

Which Gestalt principle in represented in this image?

• Similarity

• Proximity

• Figure ground

• Closure

Depth perception is defines as:

• The ability to perceive the world in 2D

• The ability to perceive the world in 3D.

• The ability to accurately estimate the depth of objects and therefore perceive the world in 3D.

• The ability to accurately estimate the distance of objects and therefore perceive the world in 3D.

People who can only see from one eye cannot use:

• Monocular depth cues

• Gestalt principles

• Perceptual constancies

• Binocular depth cues

Pictorial depth cues can be identified in images e.g. artworks. Which of the following is NOT a pictorial depth cue?

• Height in the visual field

• Accommodation

• Linear perspective

• Texture gradient