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Definition
Knowledge
Experience
Functions
Attributes
Perception is Limited to Sensory
Discrimination.
Internal Factors
Perceptual Constancies
Set or Expectancy
Motives
External Factors
Repetition
Movement
Contrast
Proximity
Similarity
Continuity
Closure
Orientation
Simplicity
Constancy
Is
Size constancy
Shape constancy
Texture constancy
Color constancy
Brightness constancy
Constancies
Constancies
Constancies
Reversible Perspectives
Perception changes
when one stares for a
long period of time.
The more an individual
looks hard at an object,
the perspective of the
object becomes
different.
Necker Cube
Illustration
Demonstrates a difference
in the overview of the
illustrations
(1st circle on the center may
look bigger than that of the
2nd illustration. This is
because of the
parts
surrounding the circle.
Movement Perception
Movement Perception
Is in consonance with actual movement. This motion simultaneously occurs with speed
Can be made by a swift alternation of immovable stimuli that stimulates movement, thus appearing in
real motion.
Phi Phenomenon Neon lights wherein light bulbs are lighted in rapid succession.
When a large object moves beside the smaller, it appears to be moving also.
Is the false impression that physically stationary objects move when in the presence of other objects
that really move
It can also happen when the subject may have the feeling of moving when an existing frame moves
around the body.
(5) Autokinetic Motion
Constant stationary stimuli are perceived moving when the eyes move in their specified direction.
(5) Shading
Auditory Perception
Distance cue
Direction cue
Auditory Perception
The farther the sound source from one side of the ear, the later the
time of arrival at the other side of the ear.
(2) Intensity Difference
Ability to search, follow, and detect where the sound comes from.
(4) Learned Difference
Auditory Perception
Errors in Perception
Hallucinations
False Perception
Drawing of false notions or impressions of sensory vividness arising
from inner mental factors.
Auditory
Olfactory
Visual
Gustatory
Tactual
Illusions
Distorted Perception
A false conception or perception of some object or something that
deceives by producing a distorted impression or belief.
Takes place when a person misinterprets the relationship among
presented stimuli so what is perceived does not correspond to physical
reality.
Clairvoyance
To discern objects or events concealed from sight.
Precognition
Foreknowledge of a situation or an event or an extrasensory
awareness of a future situation.
Psychokinesis
Hypothesized power of the will to physical force.
Telepathy
Communication of one mind with another through some
means beyond normal sensory perception.