Proximity

After organizing some screws for an art project, I realized how this siple array of objects is an example of proximity. Proximity is a psychological theory that states how our brain's tend to group stimuli together rather than seperate. This is shown through my orginized rows, how there seems to be groups among them.

Monocular Cues and Figure Ground Perception by Matt Zappe

Hello followers! It's Matt Zappe here bringing you some of the interesting laws of perception that I have just found and researched recently in my life. They're amazing! First of all, I have found examples in my life for two monocular cues, relative height and relative size. Monocular cues means that each of these laws could be available to each eye separately.

Relative size states that if two objects are similar in size, we will perceive the one that casts the smaller retinal image as farther away. The picture that I attached is an example because both Garrett and Kyle are similar in height, but one is much farther away and looks smaller. Next, relative height states that we perceive objects higher in our field of vision as farther away. For example, an object lower in our field of vision, we would assume to be closer to us. The picture that I have attached for this is an example because Garrett's foot is much closer than Kyle's body and his looks very distant.

Moreover, I found a Rule of Perceptual Organization and it is figure-ground perception. This states that we can look at a figure against a background or we can switch the background to be the figure, where the old figure becomes the new background. The picture I have attached to this is an example because one could look at the image a yellow rhombus or a white parallelogram with four surrounding white triangles. That is all I have found for now bu I will continue to experience these things and new laws in my life! It is just so interesting that they are all around us and we don't realize our mind is doing this until we think about it!

Size Constancy, Brightness Constancy, and Shape Constancy

Hi there, Chris Manchon here with The Three Perceptual Constancies. The first one is size constancy which is the fact that the size of the object remains constant however the way the retina sees them varies with distance. For example if one person stood close and one afar, the closer one would look bigger than the one afar. The second one is brightness constancy which depends on how much light is present. For example the more light that is present the brighter a white sheet of paper looks. The last one is shape constancy which is the shape of a object depending on the distance from the object. For example a round plate may appear to have a more elliptical shape to it depending on the distance away from the plate.

Motion Perception

Motion perception is the movement of objects through the visual field. This pertains to me throught the real life example I encountered which was a simple clock at school. Even though the motion of the clock seemed continuous, our brain recieves the information in static frames, but our motion perception helps the visual image seem more flowing. Just thought I'd share that quick psychology fact, seeing how these complex functions happen everday, without us being fully aware, jjust think of that the next time you look at a clock.

Binocular Convergence

From time to time, I sometimes get bored of school, as most stuednts do. And I have to find a way to somehow pass the time, and this includes staring at pencils oddly, kind of like in the photo below. But appearantly, this is an example of binocular convergence, which is basiclly the fous of both your eyes. And when you put an object very close to your face, and try to focus on it, like in the picture, you can feel your eye muscles straining.

Similarity

Garrett Davey here one last time on the form of perception called similarity. Similarity is when we group together similar figures. In this example the pencils and highlighters are most likely to appear to you in columns of pencils and highlighters rather then rows of alternating pencils and highlighters. Similarity is one of the more obvious and commonly used forms of perception. We use similarity everyday to make things seem reasonable to us!

Continuity

Garrett Davey here again!I just recently found another cool form of perception called continuity! Continuity is when we perceive smooth, continuous patterns rather then discontinuous. The picture example here is of one straight line of pencils going through a zigg zagged line of more pencils. You could perceive either the continuous lines or a pattern of alternating triangles. These forms of perception are actually pretty cool!

Closure

Hey, Garrett Davey here! I just wanted to share with you this great form of perception our brain uses everyday to make things sensible to us! It is called closure, when we fill in the gaps to create a complete, whole object! Here the poker chips look as if they are a whole but they actually are not. There are tons of examples of closure in real life and in our cool textbook like a doghouse.