AQA GCSE Psychology: Perception Topic Bundle

This contains all 9 lessons in the Perception topic for AQA GCSE Psychology. It also contains a Homework booklet, a Starter booklet and the entire Perception Workbooklet.

Sensation and perception
The difference between sensation and perception.
Visual cues and constancies
Monocular depth cues: height in plane, relative size, occlusion and linear perspective.
Binocular depth cues: retinal disparity, convergence.

Gibson’s direct theory of perception – the influence of nature
The real world presents sufficient information for direct perception without inference. Role of motion parallax in everyday perception.

Visual illusions
Explanations for visual illusions: ambiguity, misinterpreted depth cues, fiction, size constancy.
Examples of visual illusions: the Ponzo, the Müller-Lyer, Rubin’s vase, the Ames Room, the Kanizsa triangle and the Necker cube.

Gregory’s constructivist theory of perception – the influence of nurture
Perception uses inferences from visual cues and past experience to construct a model of reality.

Factors affecting perception
Perceptual set and the effects of the following factors affecting perception: culture, motivation, emotion, expectation.
The Gilchrist and Nesberg study of motivation and the Bruner and Minturn study of perceptual set.