HOMEWORK
Year 9 Topic: Perception
Filter: What do I need to know?
Depth cues & Illusions
Accurate definitions of:
Monocular depth cues (one eye)
- Height in plane
- Relative size
- Occlusion
- Linear perspective
Binocular depth cues (two eyes)
- Retinal disparity
- Convergence
Illusions
- Necker Cube
- Rubin's Vase
- Ponzo Illusion
- Kanizsa Triangle
- Muller Lyer Illusion
- Ames Room
- Ambiguity
- Fiction
- Misinterpreted depth cue
- Size constancy
Theories
Gibson (Direct Ecological Theory)
- Active world
- Motion parallax
- Gradient of texture
- Gradient of colour
- Affordances, not inferences
- Evaluation
Gregory (Constructive Perception)
- Past experiences - constructive
- Perceptual hypotheses
- Mistaken hypotheses
- Inferences, not affordances
- We use our stored knowledge to help us perceive
- Evaluation
Factors that Affect Perception
Culture
Expectation and Perceptual Set
Motivation and Emotions
- Food/hunger/starving study
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