AQA GCSE Psychology: Gibson’s Direct Theory of Perception. (Lesson 4 of Perception)

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.