VCE Psychology U2 AOS2 2023-27

(visual perception) a monocular depth cue involving the automatic focusing of the lens in the eye to adjust shape in response to changes in the distance of view from an object

• Accommodation

• Agnosia

• Relative size

• Retinal disparity

loss or impairment of the ability to recognise and identify objects, persons, sounds or other sensory stimuli using one or more of the senses due to brain injury

• Agnosia

• Closure

• Synaesthesia

• Perceptual distortion

an inability to recognise or comprehend written or printed words

• Agnostic alexia

• Apperceptive visual agnosia

• Associative visual agnosia

• Prosopagnosia

a perceptual misinterpretation involving a trapezium-shaped room which appears rectangular when viewed through a peephole using only one eye and people appear small or large, depending on where they stand in the room

• Ames room illusion

• Topographical agnosia

• Depth perception

• Perceptual distortion

an inability to accurately perceive visually presented stimuli, meaning that what is seen cannot be recognised

• Apperceptive visual agnosia

• Agnostic alexia

• Associative visual agnosia

• Simultanagnosia

an inability to associate a visual stimulus with stored information about objects in memory despite having otherwise normal perceptual abilities.

• Associative visual agnosia

• Prosopagnosia

• Simultanagnosia

• Apperceptive visual agnosia

the process of focusing on specific stimuli or aspects of the sensory environment whilst ignoring and therefore excluding others

• Attention

• Sustained attention

• Selective attention

• Divided attention

the use of both eyes working together in order to provide information to the brain about depth and distance

• Binocular depth cues

• Monocular depth cues

• Accommodation

• Retinal disparity

the perceptual process starts ‘at the bottom’ with raw sensory information that is sent ‘up’ to the brain for higher level mental ‘processing’

• Bottom-up processing

• Top-down processing

• Ventral stream

• Dorsal stream

a Gestalt principle of visual perception that involves a perceptual tendency to mentally ‘close up’, fill in or ignore gaps in a visual image and to perceive objects as complete

• Closure

• Similarity

• Figure-ground

• Proximity