After completing their study of this module, students should be able to:
1. Explain how illusions help us to understand some of the ways we organize
stimuli into meaningful perceptions.
2. Describe Gestalt psychology’s contribution to our understanding of perception.
3. Explain
the figure-ground relationship, and identify principles of perceptual grouping
in form perception.
4. Explain the importance of depth perception, and discuss the contribution of
visual cliff research to our understanding of this ability.
5. Describe two binocular cues for perceiving depth, and explain how they help
the brain to compute distance.
6. Explain how monocular cues differ from binocular cues, and describe several
monocular cues for perceiving
depth.
7. State the basic assumption we make in our perceptions of motion, and explain
how those perceptions can be
deceiving.
8. Explain the importance of perceptual constancy.
9. Describe the shape and size constancies, and explain how our expectations
about perceived size and distance
contribute to some visual illusions.
10. Discuss lightness constancy and its similarity to color constancy.