Who were the two researchers that originally created the Visual Cliff experiment?
Gibson and Walk
Originally the Visual Cliff was thought to illustrate a fear of heights, but what does it actually show?
How babies develop depth perception
The sum of an object is greater than each individual part
Gestalt Principles
This is the perception that a group of objects moving in the same direction are going to the same place
Common Fate
In an example from class, you saw lines that were near circles appearing to look like dumbbells: this was an example of the Gestalt principle of
Connectedness
The Gestalt principle that suggests we group objects together by how closely they look like one another
Similarity
The Gestalt principle that suggests our brains will complete figures despites having all of the lines drawn for them
Closure
The Gestalt principle that suggests we prefer to see smooth, "happy" lines
Continuity
The Gestalt principle that suggests we group items together by their distance from one another
Proximity
The Gestalt principle that suggests we are able to see two figures is within images. Some are in the positive space and some are in the negative space
Figure-Ground
This theory of color perception suggests that color receptors come in pairs: red/green, blue/yellow, and black/white
Opponent Process Theory
The Opponent Process theory suggests that when we stare at lights, we see lights of the opposite color. The lights we see are the
After image
Young and Helmholtz created a theory of color that suggests this
We have 3 color receptors: Red, blue, and green
What part of our eyes contains the vast majority of our cones?
Fovea
