Module 8, Perception, Psychology

The method by which the sensations experienced at any given moment are interpreted and organized in some meaningful fashion.

• constancy

• perception

• Contiguity

• Gestalt

The tendency to interpret an object as being constant.

• Gestalt

• perception

• constancy

• Contiguity

Early perspective in psychology focusing on perception and sensation, particularly the perception of patterns and whole figures.

• Contiguity

• constancy

• depth perception

• Gestalt

A Gestalt principle of perception, the tendency to perceive two things that happen close together in time as being related.

• depth perception

• Contiguity

• Monocular cues

• binocular cues

The ability to perceive the world in three dimensions.

• binocular cues

• linear perspective

• Monocular cues

• depth perception

Cues for perceiving depth based on one eye only.

• Monocular cues

• binocular cues

• top-down processing

• linear perspective

Cues for perceiving depth based on both eyes.

• Monocular cues

• Gestalt cues

• top-down processing

• binocular cues

Monocular depth perception cue, the tendency for parallel lines to appear to converge on each other.

• top-down processing

• bottom-up processing

• linear perspective

• Gestalt

Illusion of line length that is distorted by inward-turning or outward-turning corners on the ends of the lines, causing lines; of equal length to appear to be different.

• Muller-Lyer illusion

• Contiguity

• Top-down processing

• bottom-up processing

The tendency to perceive things a certain way because previous experiences or expectations influence those perceptions.

• Gestalt

• perceptual set/perceptual expectancy

• perception

• Contiguity