Psych Out!

Episode 3: Seeing may not be believing. Your brain may be playing some tricks on you.

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In this episode we will be exploring:

  1.  the process of visual perception, with reference to reception (visible light spectrum); transduction (photoreceptors, receptive fields); transmission (visual cortex); selection (feature detectors); and organisation and interpretation (visual perception principles)
  2. determine biological influences on visual perception, including physiological make-up, ageing and genetics
  3. explain psychological influences on visual perception including:
    1. perceptual set (past experience, context, motivation and emotional state)
    2. visual perception principles (Gestalt, depth cues, and visual constancies)
    3. evaluate the impact of social influences on visual perception, with reference to cultural skills (Hudson 1960; Deregowski 1972; Deregowski, Muldrow & Muldrow 1972)
    4. analyse the fallibility of visual perception, with reference to the Müller-Lyer, Ames room, and Ponzo visual illusions, as well as ambiguous and impossible figures.
      5. ...more
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      Psych Out!By Bert Kasselman