PERCEPTION STUDY GUIDE

This home page is for AP Psychology students to use while studying the Perception Unit. The study guide summarizes the important ideas from the "Perception" chapter of the Psychology Third Edition book by Benjamin et al. It includes an introduction, summaries of topics and subtopics, and a glossary of all the Key Terms. This study guide also contains figures and pictures to illustrate many of the principles. You can click on any of the topics next to the red dots to go to that separate location. Within each location, you will find the subtopics and pictures for that section.

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INTRODUCTION

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PERCEIVING AN ORGANIZED WORLD

• Perceptual Organization
• Perceptual Organization
• Figure-Ground Perception
• Organization by Minimum Tendency
• Law of Pragnanz
• Closure
• Laws of Grouping
• Organization Throughout the Senses
• Depth Perception
• Binocular Cues
  • Binocular Disparity
  • Convergence
• Monocular Cues
  • Motion Parallax
  • Elevation
  • Interposition
  • Linear Perspective
  • Aerial Perspective
  • Relative Brightness
  • Texture Gradient
• Depth Perception: Innate or Learned?
• Depth Perception and Sound
• Perceptual Constancy
• Size Constancy
• Shape Constancy
• Lightness Constancy
• Movement Perception

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THINKING ABOUT Motion Perception

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RECOGNITION AND SELECTION

• Pattern Perception
• Theories of Pattern Recognition
• Template Matching Theory
• Prototype Matching Theory
• Feature Analysis Theory
• Recognition by Components
• Fourier Analysis
• Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing
• Attention
• Selective Attention
• Divided Attention
• Determinants of Attention
• Perceptual Learning

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THINKING ABOUT Attention

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GLOSSARY

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