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Brief exposures or looks through monocular ‘peep-holes’ do not represent true perception, in his view. In his book, Gibson almost totally refrains from discussing the processes underlying perception. Perception is simply the pickup of information from invariants in the ambient environment.
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Brief exposures or looks through monocular ‘peep-holes’ do not represent true perception, in his view. In his book, Gibson almost totally refrains from discussing the processes underlying perception. Perception is simply the pickup of information from invariants in the ambient environment.
- What Is Visual Perception?
- Gregory (1970) and Top-Down Processing Theory
- Critical Evaluation of Gregory’s Theory
- Gibson (1966) and Bottom-Up Processing
- Evaluation of Gibson’s (1966) Direct Theory of Perception
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To receive information from the environment, we are equipped with sense organs, e.g., the eye, ear, and nose. Each sense organ is part of a sensory system that receives sensory inputs and transmits sensory information to the brain. A particular problem for psychologists is explaining how the physical energy received by sense organs forms the basis ...
Psychologist Richard Gregory (1970) argued that perception is a constructive process that relies on top-down processing. Stimulus information from our environment is frequently ambiguous, so to interpret it, we require higher cognitive information either from past experiences or stored knowledge in order to make inferences about what we perceive. H...
1. The Nature of Perceptual Hypotheses
If perceptions make use of hypothesis testing, the question can be asked, “what kind of hypotheses are they?” Scientists modify a hypothesis according to the support they find for it, so are we, as perceivers, also able to modify our hypotheses? In some cases, it would seem the answer is yes. For example, look at the figure below: This probably looks like a random arrangement of black shapes. In fact, there is a hidden face in there; can you see it? The face is looking straight ahead and is i...
2. Perceptual Development
A perplexing question for the constructivists who propose perception is essentially top-down in nature is “how can the neonate ever perceive?” If we all have to construct our own worlds based on past experiences, why are our perceptions so similar, even across cultures? Relying on individual constructs for making sense of the world makes perception a very individual and chancy process. The constructivist approach stresses the role of knowledge in perception and therefore is against the nativi...
3. Sensory Evidence
Perhaps the major criticism of the constructivists is that they have underestimated the richness of sensory evidence available to perceivers in the real world (as opposed to the laboratory, where much of the constructivists” evidence has come from). Constructivists like Gregory frequently use the example of size constancy to support their explanations. That is, we correctly perceive the size of an object even though the retinal image of an object shrinks as the object recedes. They propose th...
Gibson’s bottom-up theory suggests that perception involves innate mechanisms forged by evolution and that no learning is required. This suggests that perception is necessary for survival – without perception, we would live in a very dangerous environment. Our ancestors would have needed perception to escape from harmful predators, suggesting perce...
A large number of applications can be applied in terms of his theory, e.g., training pilots, runway markings, and road markings. It’s an excellent explanation for perception when viewing conditions are clear. Gibson’s theory also highlights the richness of information in an optic array and provides an account of perception in animals, babies, and h...
DeCasper, A. J., & Fifer, W. P. (1980). Of human bonding: Newborns prefer their mothers” voices. Science, 208(4448), 1174-1176. Gibson, J. J. (1966).The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems.Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Gibson, J. J. (1972). A Theory of Direct Visual Perception. In J. Royce, W. Rozenboom (Eds.). The Psychology of Knowing. New York: ...
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Nov 8, 2010 · This also has the effect of concentrating the light from a large area on the outside into a small area on the inside, thus increasing the intensity (power per unit area), thus making the image brighter. However, the same process also works in reverse, and that's why the peephole makes it difficult for people to see into your room.
May 1, 2010 · Visual illusions are defined by the dissociation between the physical reality and the subjective perception of an object or event. When we experience a visual illusion, we may see something that ...
Nov 11, 2021 · Therefore, at the first step, the mean cross-individual dissimilarity scores between each participant’s self-portrait and all other same-gender real faces were entered, β = 0.50, 95% CI = [0.07, 0.93], t(75) = 2.30, p = .024, to ensure that we were analyzing self-specific accuracy as our dependent variable. At the second step, individual-difference variables of interest were added (the five ...
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Aug 31, 2022 · A third example of a situation that we would not regard as an illusion is the mixing of coloured lights—metameric matches. A mixture of long wavelength (red) light and medium wavelength (green) light is perceived as yellow (Figure 5C). We do not regard this as an illusion—a mismatch between the reality (“red” + “green” wavelengths ...
