AQA GCSE Psychology - Perception Unit 1.2

AQA GCSE Psychology - Perception Unit 1.2 Complete Resources

5 Presentation slides (Approximately 10-15 lessons) including tasks and activities, learning outcomes checklist and worksheets

Specification Details:

• The difference between sensation and perception.
• Monocular depth cues: height in plane, relative size, occlusion and linear perspective.
• Binocular depth cues: retinal disparity, convergence.
• The real world presents sufficient information for direct perception without inference. Role of motion parallax in everyday perception.
• 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.
• Perception uses inferences from visual cues and past experience to construct a model of reality.
• 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.