Perceiving is Believing: Crash Course Psychology #7

What does perception allow us to do?

• Make sense of our senses and experience the world

• Differentiate between shapes and colors

• Only see what we expect to see

• Ignore all the sensory information we receive

What influences our perception according to the video?

• Only our eyesight

• Expectations, experiences, and cultural norms

• The amount of light in the environment

• The color of objects only

What is the 'figure-ground relationship'?

• The relationship between different colors in an image

• How we distinguish main objects from their background

• A method to measure the distance of objects

• A technique for improving eyesight

How do we perceive depth?

• Through the size of objects only

• By using both binocular and monocular cues

• Using only one eye

• Depending solely on the color of objects

What is perceptual constancy?

• The ability to recognize objects under varying conditions

• A constant perception that never changes

• The consistency of an object's color only

• Ignoring changes in the environment