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Psy 360 Virtual Ambiguity Analysis
VISUAL AMBIGUITY
PSY/360
JUNE 8TH, 2015
MELISSA JACKSON

INTRODUCTION
• RESOLUTION OF AMBIGUITIES
• TYPES OF ASSUMPTIONS
• OBJECT PLACEMENT
• LIGHT SOURCE

• ROLE OF PERCEPTION
• BOTTOM-UP PROCESSING
• TOP-DOWN PROCESSING
• VISUAL PERCEPTION
PROVIDES AN
UNDERSTANDING OF THE
WORLD AROUND US

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ASSUMPTIONS
• PLACEMENT OF AN
OBJECT
- PERCEPTION

- LOCAL CONTRAST

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• WHAT IS COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY?
• HOW DO PERCEPTION AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY RELATE?

• MAKING ASSUMPTIONS RESOLVES VISUAL AMBIGUITIES
• PLACEMENT OF AN OBJECT – PERCEPTION
• LIKELIHOOD PRINCIPLE
• FRAME REFERENCE – 2D RETINA/3D WORLD

REFERENCES
• Galotti, K.M. (2014). Cognitiive psychology in and out of the laboratory (5 th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• McLeod, S. A. (2007). Visual perception | simply psychology. retrieved May 31, 2015, from http://www.simplypsychology.org/perception-theories.html
• Perception role in cognition psychology. Retrieved from https://www.science.mcmaster.ca/pnb/research/cognitive-perception.html
• Top-down and bottom-up processing | in Chapter 07: Cognition | from Psychology: an Introduction by Russ Dewey. (n.d.). retrieved May
2015, from http://www.intropsych.com/ch07_cognition/top-down_and_bottom-up_processing.html
• Willingham, D.T. (2007). Cognition: The thinking animal (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ; Pearson/Allyn & Bacon

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