Perceptual Interpretation
• Objective: Explain how different perspectives
influence people’s interpretation of stimuli.
1. CBM
2. Notes: Perceptual Interpretation
3. Visual Illusions
4. HW: Review for test; corrections due day before
test
Test: Multiple Choice A-DAY MON 10/24
B-DAY TUES 10/25
Essay
A-DAY WED 10/25
B-DAY THURS 10/26
Basic Principles
• Bottom Up Processing
– Based on senses
• Top Down Processing
– Based on higher order
thinking
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Selective attention
Cocktail Party Effect
Inattentional Blindness
Change Blindness
http://viscog.beckman.illinois.edu/djs_lab/demos.html
Interpretation
• Perceptual Set
• Stroop Effect
– Directed
attention
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/words.
html
Stroop Effect
Perspective
http://www.impactlab.net/2006/03/09/amazing-3d-sidewalkart-photos/
Sidewalk Art
Synesthesia – taste colors,
hear smells, see tastses,
letters and numbers have
colors
6th Sense?
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ESP?
Telepathy
Telekinesis
Clairvoyance
Precognition
Out of Body Experience
Optical Illusions
Let’s look at some optical illusions
and see if we can figure out what is
causing the illusion!
Test Review Items
This is not a comprehensive list – it is simply a guide
Review vocab cards, readings & notes
Basic ideas of sensation: Thresholds,
subliminal, detection & change theories,
sensory adaptation, sensory interaction
Eye – parts of the eye; how color is seen,
problems with vision, including muscles in
the eyes and types of cells in the eyes
Ear – parts of the ear; how sound is heard,
problems with hearing
Touch – types of touch sensations, problems
with sensations, how each sensation work
Smell – process by which people smell,
problems with smell
Taste – how taste works, types of taste
sensors, problems with taste
How the senses work in relation to the parts
of the brain; which areas are associated
with which senses; feature detectors
Perceptual Organization:
- Gestalt principles
- Binocular & monocular cues
- Perceptual constancy
- Motion perception
Perceptual Interpretation
- Bottom up & top down processing
- Selective inattention
- Change blindness
- Cocktail party effect
- Selective attenion
- Stroop effect
- Perceptual Set
6th Sense
- ESP
- Telepathy
- Clairvoyance
- Out of body
experience
- Precognition
- Telekinesis