Perception
Published on 29. January 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
48 pages
978-1-85433-044-4 (ISBN)
Description
Open Learning Units offer a very flexible approach to the teaching of psychology. They are designed to be more than sufficient for the purposes of A/S and A-Level psychology, and the applied emphasis should appeal to various vocational courses such as those offered by BTEC and also to mature students on Access courses. Their primary use is in the classroom with a tutor's guidance, but the interactive style makes them equally appropriate for the purposes of self-study. More advanced students might want to use the Units to learn at their own pace, and in all cases, the careful structure of the writing and the extensive use of examples, open questions and self-assessment questions make them suitable revision guides. This volume explains the principles of perception - a constantly active process of selection, organization and meaning.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Adult education
Illustrations
illustrations, further reading list, glossary, references
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
Weight
121 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85433-044-4 (9781854330444)
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Content
Part 1: What is perception?; the six sensory processes - seeing colour, seeing depth, absolute and differential thresholds, feature detector cells, right and left hemispheres, colour vision. Part 2 From sensation to perception: distance perception - relative size, relative brightness, superimposition, height, texture, perspective, motion parallax, accommodation, retinal disparity, convergence; motion perception; theories of perceptual organization - Gestalt principles, pattern regognition; perceptual constancies - shape, brightness, location; what ambiguity and illusion tell us about perception - geometric illusions, ambiguous figures, paradoxical figures. Part 3 Object recognition: context effects - perceptual set and expectations; bottom-up and top-down processing. Part 4 Development of perception: face perception; visual deprivation; pattern recognition. Part 5 ESP: subliminal perception.